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).
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Drawing upon archival research and deft close readings of poems, Part Two (1934-1946) delves into the inner-workings of literary history and shows how diverse alliances used four books of poetry about Appalachia to change America s notion of race, region, and pluralism.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American poetry -- Appalachian Region -- History and criticism.