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Author : John Beecher
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Total Pages : 290 pages
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Download or read book Collected poems, 1924-1974 by John Beecher written by John Beecher and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 33 pages
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Author : John Beecher
Publisher : MacMillan
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Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Collected Poems, 1924-1974 written by John Beecher and published by MacMillan. This book was released on 1974 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The selections offered ... comprise most of John Beecher's poetry published to date as well as many recent poems appearing for the first time .. As a young man, Beecher worked in an open-hearth steel mill in his native Birmingham, Alabama. It was then that he began to write poetry, spurred by a desire to expose the inhuman conditions workers suffered"--
Author : John Beecher
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Total Pages : 260 pages
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Download or read book One More River to Cross written by John Beecher and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late John Beecher, though descended from the abolitionist Beechers, grew up in Birmingham, where his father was a steel industry executive. Beecher himself was groomed for a similar role, but when he went into the mills as a young man during the Great Depression, he rebelled and began to write powerful, radical, activist poetry. A contemporary of Woody Guthrie and John Steinbeck, he became a similar chronicler of the massive human displacement of the economic upheaval of the 1930s. During World War II, he served as an officer of the interracial crew of the troop transport Booker T. Washington, and wrote a book about those experiences. In the McCarthy era, he was blacklisted. And in the civil rights era, he turned his attention to the evils of segregation and the Ku Klux Klan. Always, he wrote powerful, spare verse which in lesser hands might have been ruined by its outrage. With his artist wife, Barbara, he published several elegant collections of his poetry on his own hand-set letterpress. His books included Report to the Stockholders, To Live and Die in Dixie, In Egypt Land, and a 1974 Macmillan edition of collected poems. All are out of print.
Author : Angela Joan Smith
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817319549
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Here I Stand written by Angela Joan Smith and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Beecher (1904-1980) never had the public prominence of his famous ancestors, but as a poet, professor, sociologist, New Deal administrator, journalist, and civil rights activist, he spent his life fighting for the voiceless and oppressed with a distinct moral sensibility that reflected his self-identification as the twentieth-century torchbearer for his famous family. While John Beecher had many vocations in his lifetime, he always considered himself a poet and a teacher. Some critics have compared the populist elements of Beecher's poetry to the work of Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg, but his writing never gained a broad audience or critical acclaim during his lifetime. This book examines Beecher's writing and activism and places them in the broader context of American culture at pivotal points in the twentieth century.
Author : Ruth Jennison
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421405296
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Zukofsky Era written by Ruth Jennison and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars and students of modernism will find much to discuss in Jennison's theoretical study.--Mark Scroggins, author of The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky "The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory"
Author : Don Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Collected Poems written by Don Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many of Gordon's poems are suffused with themes of revolution and political activism, but this collection showcases the breadth of the subjects he addressed in his sixty years of writing, expressed with a rigorous aesthetic sensibility in a style that incorporates diverse influences including modernism and surrealism."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Cary Nelson
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299123444
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Repression and Recovery written by Cary Nelson and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poststructuralist literary history - Nelson's premise that the history of modernist culture is one we no longer know we have forgotten and he aims to recover the political questions many forgotten modern poets looked straight in the eye.
Author : Richard Godden
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820327085
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Reading Southern Poverty Between the Wars, 1918-1939 written by Richard Godden and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franklin D. Roosevelt once described the South as "the nation's number one economic problem." These twelve original, interdisciplinary essays on southern indigence between the World Wars share a conviction that poverty is not just a dilemma of the marketplace but also a cultural and political construction. Although previous studies have examined the web of coercive social relations in which sharecroppers, wage laborers, and other poor southerners were held in place, this volume opens up a new perspective. These essays show that professed forces of change and modernization in the South--writers, photographers, activists, social scientists, and policymakers--often subtly upheld the structures by which southern labor was being exploited. Planters, politicians, and others who enforced the southern economic and social status quo not only relied on bigotry but also manipulated deeply held American beliefs about sturdy yeoman nobility and the sanctity of farm and family. Conversely, any threats to the system were tarred with the imagery of big cities, northerners, and organized labor. The essays expose vestiges of these beliefs in sources as varied as photographs from the Farm Security Administration, statistics for incarceration and child labor, and the writings of Grace Lumpkin, Ellen Glasgow, and Erskine Caldwell. This volume shows that those who work to eradicate poverty--and even victims of poverty themselves--can hesitate to cross the line of race, gender, memory, or tradition in pursuit of their goal.
Author : Bill Rushton
Publisher : The Institute for Southern Studies
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Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Our Promised Land written by Bill Rushton and published by The Institute for Southern Studies. This book was released on with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soil, timber, and minerals have shaped the South inpeculiar ways and continue to stand in a precarious limbo between potential and exploitation. Not only has profit-oriented development devoured the South's natural resources, it has also produced our own home-grown, land-hungry barons. The byproducts of this process are sharecropper and entrepreneur, clea rcut forests and ravaged mountains, the cotton plantation and agribusiness. The gas shortage and oil profits, our electric bills and strip-mined coal, skyrocketing food prices—all accent the critical position of land-based enterprises in our contemporary society. This double issue of Southern Exposure explores this foundation of southern culture.
Author : Bill Mullen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252065057
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Radical Revisions written by Bill Mullen and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical Revisions brings together some of the best and most exciting recent work on the literature and popular culture of the 1930s. Contributors examine a wide range of texts, from classics such as Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio to popular icons such as King Kong and largely ignored novels such as Josephine Herbst's The Wedding. Drawing on recent theories of gender, class, race, ethnicity, and representation, they reexamine texts previously brushed aside as artistically uninteresting or too popular to be taken seriously.
Author : Joseph M. Flora
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807126929
Total Pages : 1096 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (269 download)
Download or read book The Companion to Southern Literature written by Joseph M. Flora and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Selected as an Outstanding Reference Source by the Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association There are many anthologies of southern literature, but this is the first companion. Neither a survey of masterpieces nor a biographical sourcebook, The Companion to Southern Literature treats every conceivable topic found in southern writing from the pre-Columbian era to the present, referencing specific works of all periods and genres. Top scholars in their fields offer original definitions and examples of the concepts they know best, identifying the themes, burning issues, historical personalities, beloved icons, and common or uncommon stereotypes that have shaped the most significant regional literature in memory. Read the copious offerings straight through in alphabetical order (Ancestor Worship, Blue-Collar Literature, Caves) or skip randomly at whim (Guilt, The Grotesque, William Jefferson Clinton). Whatever approach you take, The Companion’s authority, scope, and variety in tone and interpretation will prove a boon and a delight. Explored here are literary embodiments of the Old South, New South, Solid South, Savage South, Lazy South, and “Sahara of the Bozart.” As up-to-date as grit lit, K Mart fiction, and postmodernism, and as old-fashioned as Puritanism, mules, and the tall tale, these five hundred entries span a reach from Lady to Lesbian Literature. The volume includes an overview of every southern state’s belletristic heritage while making it clear that the southern mind extends beyond geographical boundaries to form an essential component of the American psyche. The South’s lavishly rich literature provides the best means of understanding the region’s deepest nature, and The Companion to Southern Literature will be an invaluable tool for those who take on that exciting challenge. Description of Contents 500 lively, succinct articles on topics ranging from Abolition to Yoknapatawpha 250 contributors, including scholars, writers, and poets 2 tables of contents — alphabetical and subject — and a complete index A separate bibliography for most entries
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Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Southern Exposure written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 930 pages
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Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mari Jo Buhle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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Total Pages : 1032 pages
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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the American Left written by Mari Jo Buhle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive reference book on radicalism in the United States from the Civil War to the present, this work fills serious gaps in basic reference materials on American politics, labor, and culture by focusing on radicals rather than reformers. Merging previously unutilized sourcessuch as oral history with the wealth of insight available from feminist, ethnic, racial studies and popular culture analysis as well as traditional scholarly approaches, their efforts retrieved a hitherto inaccesible history.
Author : Michael True
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815603672
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (36 download)
Download or read book An Energy Field More Intense Than War written by Michael True and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American history abounds with a rich tradition of literature dealing with nonviolence. In a work that spans from the seventeenth century to the present, Michael True brings to light the strong but long-neglected strain in American culture: nonviolence as an active response to conflicts and divisiveness. In identifying writings about action for social change, he distinguishes literary works from peace advocacy and nonviolence and relates them to broad currents of United States history. The Quakers of the 1680s and abolitionists of the 1850s, the sanctuary Movement and Plowshares of the 1980s, novelists (from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Norman Mailer) and poets (from Walt Whitman to Denise Levertov) all have written powerful works on nonviolent action. Through this literature, the author explores the beauty of an important theme in American literature. At a time when people face widespread injustice, True reminds us that nonviolence holds a significant place in our country's history.
Author : Guy Owen
Publisher : Blair
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Contemporary Poetry of North Carolina written by Guy Owen and published by Blair. This book was released on 1977 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry from 63 poets associated with N.C
