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Driven to the Field : Sharecropping and Southern Literature
Title
Driven to the Field : Sharecropping and Southern Literature / David A. Davis.
ISBN
9780813948669
9780813948645
Publication
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource (334 pages): illustrations, map.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"By analyzing literary treatments of sharecropping in multiple genres of Southern literature, Driven to the Field reveals how the South progressed from slavery to civil rights, how this form of tenant farming continues to influence southern culture, and why labor exploitation defines Southern culture"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2023.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Series
The American South series
Contents
Sharecropping, Labor Exploitation, and Southern Literature
Sharecropping, Reconstruction, and Postbellum Literature
The New Slavery
America's Number One Economic Problem
The End of Sharecropping
The Afterlife of Sharecropping.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Project Muse. distributor
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