Ain't got no home : America's great migrations and the making of an interracial left /

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Author / Creator:Battat, Erin Royston, author.
Imprint:Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Description:xv, 233 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:Migration, Internal -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Migration, Internal -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Migration, Internal, in literature.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Populism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Right and left (Political science) -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
American literature.
Literature and society.
Migration, Internal.
Migration, Internal, in literature.
Migration, Internal -- Political aspects.
Populism.
Right and left (Political science)
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9965093
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ISBN:9781469614021 (paperback)
1469614022 (paperback)
9781469614038 (ebook)
1469614030 (ebook)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Most scholarship on the mass migrations of African Americans and southern whites during and after the Great Depression treats those migrations as separate phenomena, strictly divided along racial lines. In this engaging interdisciplinary work, Erin Royston Battat argues instead that we should understand these Depression-era migrations as interconnected responses to the capitalist collapse and political upheavals of the early twentieth century. During the 1930s and 1940s, Battat shows, writers and artists of both races created migration stories specifically to bolster the black-white Left alliance. Defying rigid critical categories, Battat considers a wide variety of media, including literary classics by John Steinbeck and Ann Petry, "lost" novels by Sanora Babb and William Attaway, hobo novellas, images of migrant women by Dorothea Lange and Elizabeth Catlett, popular songs, and histories and ethnographies of migrant shipyard workers. This vibrant rereading and recovering of the period's literary and visual culture expands our understanding of the migration narrative by uniting the political and aesthetic goals of the black and white literary Left and illuminating the striking interrelationship between American populism and civil rights. "--

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