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Jerrold HirschPublication Details
BookUniversity of North Carolina Press2003Availability
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Although the immediate context of the FWP was work relief, national FWP officials developed programs that spoke to much larger and longer-standing debates over the nature of American identity and culture and the very definition of who was an American. Hirsch reviews the founding of the FWP and the significance of its American Guide series, considering the choices made by administrators who wanted to celebrate diversity as a positive aspect of American cultural identity. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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Contents
- Pt. 1. Romantic Nationalism, Cultural Pluralism, and the Federal Writers’ Project
- Ch. 1. Inherited Questions
- Ch. 2. Visions and Constituencies: Introducing and Writing the American Guide Series
- Ch. 3. A New Deal View of American History of Art: The Federal Writers’ Project Guidebook Essays
- Ch. 4. Picturesque Pluralism: The Guidebook Tours
- Pt. 2. Modernity, Cultural Pluralism, and the Federal Writers’ Project
- Ch. 5. Long Live Participation!: Ethnicity, Race, and the Federal Writers’ Project
- Ch. 6. Before Columbia: The Federal Writers’ Project and American Oral History Research
- Ch. 7. The People Must Be Heard: W. T. Couch and the Southern Life History Program
- Ch. 8. Toward a Marriage of True Minds: The Federal Writers’ Project and the Writing of Southern Folk History
- Pt. 3. Denouement
- Ch. 9. Conflicting Definitions of America: The Dies Committee and the Writers’ Project
- Ch. 10. Reform, Culture, and Patriotism: The Writers’ Project Becomes the Writers’ Program, 1939-1943
- Epilogue: Have You Discovered America?
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- 0807854891
- 0807828173
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