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04006aam a2200433 i 4500 001 18D254782DF711EAB868BF0597128E48 003 SILO 005 20200103010057 008 190220t20192019gauab b s001 0 eng c 010 $a 2019008112 020 $a 0820356018 020 $a 9780820356013 035 $a (OCoLC)1088652705 040 $a NcU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d NGU $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-usu-- 050 00 $a PS261 $b .C45 2019 082 00 $a 810.9/975 $2 23 100 1 $a Child, Ben $e author. 245 14 $a The whole machinery : $b the rural modern in cultures of the U.S. South, 1890-1946 / $c Benjamin S. Child. 264 1 $a Athens, Georgia : $b The University of Georgia Press, $c [2019] 300 $a x, 283 pages : $b illustrations, map ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a The new southern studies 520 $a "A familiar story holds that modernization radiates out from metropolitan origins. The whole machinery explores representations of people and places, objects and occasions, that reverse that trajectory, demonstrating how modernizing agents move in a contrary direction as well--from the country to city. In a crucial reversal, these figures aren't pulled by or into urban modernity so much as they bring alternate--and transformative--iterations of the modern to the urban world. This book upends the U.S. South's reputation as retrograde and unresponsive to modernity by showing how the effects of national and transnational exchange (particularly via the cotton trade), emergent technologies, and industrialization animate environments and bodies associated with, or performing, versions of the rural. To this end, it also searches out the shadow side of the cosmopolitan modern by investigating the rural sources--the laboring bodies and raw materials--that made such urban spaces possible. The whole machinery explores a range of canonical and noncanonical figures: Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frances E.W. Harper, W.E.B. Du Bois, Allen Tate, Don West, the authors of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union pamphlet The Disinherited Speak, Charlie Poole, and Zora Neale Hurston among them. It uncovers signs of the rural modern in a variety of texts and media, including narrative fiction and poetry, as well as photographs, sound recordings, radio broadcasts, letters, newspaper reports, and magazine profiles. These readings convey diverse and individuated desires for escape or entrenchment, often in the same conflicted voice, ultimately creating multivalent expressions and experiences of rurality that are, in their way, as thoroughly modern as those of more widely canonized urban figures"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-267) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction. Limning the land -- Cultures of black agriculture -- "The true reconstruction of the country" in Iola Leroy and the plantation poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar -- "Strange vicissitudes": dirt, progress, and the modern -- Other agrarian -- Making it old in the New South; or, The leisure agrarians cultivate the folk -- Disinherited speech acts: the body as archive in labor agrarianism -- Migratory modernism -- Station to station: New York City and the returns of the rural -- Coda. Uneven ground. 650 0 $a American literature $z Southern States $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Rural conditions in literature. 650 0 $a Civilization, Modern, in literature. 650 7 $a American literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 650 7 $a Civilization, Modern, in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00863110 650 7 $a Rural conditions in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01101483 651 7 $a Southern States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01244550 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a New southern studies 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200204024213.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=18D254782DF711EAB868BF0597128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search