The social life of poetry : Appalachia, race, and radical modernism

Publication Data

• Title The social life of poetry : Appalachia, race, and radical modernism
• Author Chris Green
• Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date 2009
• Publication location Basingstoke
• Language English

Contents

Appalachia, race, and pluralism
Evangelizing an Anglo equality (1883-1908)
New York City's cultural pluralists (1906-1930)
Reactionary regionalism versus critical quarterlies (1925-1945)
The social life of poetry
Racing the land with Jesse Stuart's Man with a bull tongue plow (1934)
"Authentic folk feeling" in James Still's Hounds on the mountain (1937)
Rebinding "The book of the dead" into Muriel Rukeyser's U.S. 1 (1938)
The tight rope of democracy and Don West's Clods of southern earth (1946).

Topics

• American poetry :: 20th century :: History and criticism
• American poetry :: Appalachian Region :: History and criticism
• European Americans :: Race identity
• Whites :: Race identity :: United States
• Cultural pluralism :: United States :: History
• Modernism (Literature) :: United States
• United States :: Race relations
• United States

The social life of poetry : Appalachia, race, and radical modernism by Chris Green. ISBN 9780230610934. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.