UID:
almafu_9959236597802883
Format:
1 online resource (288 p.)
Edition:
Paperback edition.
ISBN:
0-8131-9347-8
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0-8131-4821-9
Content:
Coal miners evoke admiration and sympathy from the public, and writers -- some seeking a muse, others a cause -- traditionally champion them. David C. Duke explores more than one hundred years of this tradition in literature, poetry, drama, and film. Duke argues that as most writers spoke about rather than to the mining community, miners became stock characters in an industrial morality play, robbed of individuality or humanity. He discusses activist-writers such as John Reed, Theodore Dreiser, and Denise Giardina, who assisted striking workers, and looks at the writing of miners themselves. H
Note:
Includes index.
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Idiosyncratic activism while assisting "the other" -- Two Appalachians : Don West and Denise Giardina -- Coal mining in the novel, the short story, and genre fiction -- Stage and screen -- Coal mining fiction for the young -- Coal mining and the poetic imagination -- Voices from within the mining community.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-59642-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8131-2237-6
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
