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Driven to the Field: Sharecropping and Southern Literature

Davis, David A

Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press 2023

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Driven to the Field: Sharecropping and Southern Literature
Autor: Davis, David A
Assuntos: 19th century ; 20th century ; African Americans in literature ; Agriculture in literature ; American ; American literature ; American literature-Southern States-History and criticism ; American Studies ; Economic conditions ; Historiography ; History ; History and criticism ; In literature ; Language & Literature ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; Literature and society ; Literature and society-Southern States-History-20th century ; Race relations in literature ; Sharecropping ; Sharecropping in literature ; Southern States
Descrição: Driven to the Field traces the culture of sharecropping-crucial to understanding life in the southern United States-from Emancipation to the twenty-first century. By reading dozens of works of literature in their historical context, David A. Davis demonstrates how sharecropping emerged, endured for a century, and continues to resonate in American culture. Following the end of slavery, sharecropping initially served as an expedient solution to a practical problem, but it quickly developed into an entrenched power structure situated between slavery and freedom that exploited the labor of Blacks and poor whites to produce agricultural commodities. Sharecropping was the economic linchpin in the South's social structure, and the region's political system, race relations, and cultural practices were inextricably linked with this peculiar form of tenant farming from the end of the Civil War through the civil rights movement. Driven to the Field analyzes literary portrayals of this system to explain how it defined the culture of the South, revealing multiple genres of literature that depicted sharecropping, such as cotton romances, agricultural uplift novels, proletarian sharecropper fiction, and sharecropper autobiographies-important works of American literature that have never before been evaluated and discussed in their proper context.
Títulos relacionados: The American South series
Editor: Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press
Data de criação/publicação: 2023
Formato: 334
Idioma: Inglês

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Driven to the Field: Sharecropping and Southern Literature

Davis, David A

Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press 2023

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