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Author:

Shindo, Charles J.

Title:

Dust bowl migrants in the American imagination / Charles J. Shindo.

Publisher:

University Press of Kansas,

Copyright Date:

c1997

Description:

xv, 252 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Migrant agricultural laborers in art.
Arts, American.
Arts, Modern--20th century--United States.
Migrant agricultural laborers--United States--History.
Depressions--1929--United States.
Dust storms--Great Plains.
Labor camps--California.
Droughts--Great Plains.
Great Plains--Rural conditions.
California--Rural conditions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-246) and index.

Contents:

Displaced voices : the migrants as American victims -- The ideals of American democracy : New Deal reformers and the migrant -- The passion and the humanity : Dorothea Lange and Migrant worker -- The perfectibility of man : John Steinbeck and The grapes of wrath -- Photo essay: Introducing Americans to America : the image of the migrants -- The world-old desire to tell a story : John Ford and The grapes of wrath -- The things that you fight for : Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl ballads -- The uses of American culture : folklorists and the migrant -- The ghost of Tom Joad : the persistence of Dust Bowl representations.

Series:

Rural America

ISBN:

9780700608102 (alk. paper)
0700608109 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)35178594

LCCN:

96032301

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

VFPB334 -- Elgin Public Library (Elgin)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)