TY - BOOK ID - 78073464 TI - Writers and miners PY - 2015 SN - 0813148219 9780813148212 1322596425 9781322596426 0813122376 9780813122373 0813193478 PB - Lexington The University Press of Kentucky DB - UniCat KW - Mines and mineral resources in literature. KW - Coal mines and mining in literature. KW - Coal miners in literature. KW - American literature KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78073464 AB - Coal miners evoke admiration and sympathy from the public, and writers -- some seeking a muse, others a cause -- traditionally champion them. David C. Duke explores more than one hundred years of this tradition in literature, poetry, drama, and film. Duke argues that as most writers spoke about rather than to the mining community, miners became stock characters in an industrial morality play, robbed of individuality or humanity. He discusses activist-writers such as John Reed, Theodore Dreiser, and Denise Giardina, who assisted striking workers, and looks at the writing of miners themselves. H ER -