Format:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Boulder, Colo NetLibrary
ISBN:
0807861669
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9780807861660
Series Statement:
EBSCOhost eBook Collection
Content:
How well do we know our country? Whom do we include when we use the word "American"? These are not just contemporary issues but recurring questions Americans have asked themselves throughout their history--and questions that were addressed when, in 1935, the Roosevelt administration created the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. 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 de
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part One: Romantic Nationalism, Cultural Pluralism, and the Federal Writers' Project; Chapter 1 Inherited Questions; Chapter 2 Visions and Constituencies: Introducing and Writing the American Guide Series; Chapter 3 A New Deal View of American History and Art: The Federal Writers' Project Guidebook Essays; Chapter 4 Picturesque Pluralism: The Guidebook Tours; Part Two: Modernity, Cultural Pluralism, and the Federal Writers' Project; Chapter 5 Long Live Participation!: Ethnicity, Race, and the Federal Writers' Project
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Chapter 6 Before Columbia: The Federal Writers' Project and American Oral History ResearchChapter 7 The People Must Be Heard: W. T. Couch and the Southern Life History Program; Chapter 8 Toward a Marriage of True Minds: The Federal Writers' Project and the Writing of Southern Folk History; Part Three: Denouement; Chapter 9 Conflicting Definitions of America: The Dies Committee and the Writers' Project; Chapter 10 Reform, Culture, and Patriotism: The Writers' Project Becomes the Writers' Program, 1939-1943; Epilogue: Have You Discovered America?; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0807854891
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0807828173
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
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Kultur
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Geschichte 1918-1945
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USA
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Kultur
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Geschichte 1918-1945
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