Creating a Hoosier Self-Portrait: The Federal Writers' Project in Indiana, 1935-1942 - Hardcover

Blakey, George T.

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ISBN 10: 0253345693 ISBN 13: 9780253345691

Verlag: Indiana University Press, 2005

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Book by Blakey George T

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An important history of the Indiana state Federal Writers' Project . . . straightforward . . . persuasive . . . impassioned. This is an important social history of Depression-era Indiana and a guide for future research.January 2006 -- A. B. Audant * CUNY Kingsborough Community College *

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From 1935 to 1942, the Indiana office of the Federal Writers' Program hired unemployed writers as "field workers" to create a portrait in words of the land, the people, and the culture of the Hoosier state. This book tells the story of the project and its valuable legacy. Beginning work under the guidance of Ross Lockridge, whose son would later burst onto the American literary scene with his novel Raintree County, the group would eventually produce Indiana: A Guide to the Hoosier State, Hoosier Tall Stories, and other publications. Though many projects were never brought to completion, the Program's work remains a useful and rarely tapped storehouse of information on the history and culture of the state.

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• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0253345693
• ISBN 13: 9780253345691
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 282