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African American authors --- African Americans in literature --- Authors, American --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Biography --- Walker, Margaret, --- Alexander, Margaret Abigail Walker,

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AMERICAN FICTION --- AFRO-AMERICAN AUTHORS --- SLAVERY IN LITERATURE --- FEMINISM AND LITERATURE --- HISTORICAL FICTION, AMERICAN --- AFRO-AMERICANS IN LITERATURE --- FEMININITY IN LITERATURE --- WALKER (MARGARET) --- WILLIAMS (SHERLEY ANNE) --- COOPER (J. CALIFORNIA) --- MORRISON (TONI), 1931 --- -WOMEN AUTHORS --- WOMEN AUTHORS --- U.S. --- 20th CENTURY --- JUBILEE --- DESSA ROSE --- FAMILY

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Political poetry, American --- Politics and literature --- Women and literature --- American poetry --- Right and left (Political science) in literature. --- Right and left (Political science) in literature --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American political poetry --- History and criticism. --- History --- History and criticism --- Ridge, Lola, --- Taggard, Genevieve, --- Walker, Margaret, --- Alexander, Margaret Abigail Walker, --- Political and social views.

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The first book-length literary analysis of the WPA’s Federal Writers’ Project (FWP)—a massive New Deal program that put thousands to work documenting the country during the Depression. Drawing on critical histories, archival documents, and select works of fiction, the book examines the nature and history of the FWP’s documentary method and its literary imprint, particularly on three key black American writers: Ralph Ellison, Dorothy West, and Margaret Walker. By aiming their documentary lenses so precisely on individual voices, folklore, and cultural communities, FWP writers would ultimately eschew the social realism of thirties culture in favor of themes surrounding personal and cultural identities in the postwar era. This concise volume demonstrates how the FWP served as a repository from which many of the most treasured 20th century writers drew material, techniques, and philosophical direction in ways that would help steer the course of American writing.

Literature. --- Literature --- Literature, Modern --- America --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- North American Literature. --- Literary History. --- History and criticism. --- 20th century. --- Literatures. --- Depressions --- United States --- History --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- America-Literatures. --- Literature-History and criticism. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- America—Literatures. --- Literature—History and criticism. --- Ellison, Ralph --- West, Dorothy, --- Walker, Margaret, --- Ellison, Ralph. --- West, Dorothy --- Walker, Margaret --- Schwarze, ... --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Federal Writers' Project --- Federal Writers' Project. --- California --- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer --- History. --- Alexander, Margaret A. --- Alexander, Margaret Abigail Walker --- Walker Alexander, Margaret --- Schriftstellerin --- 1915-1998 --- 1907-1998 --- Ellison, Ralph Waldo --- Waldo Ellison, Ralph --- Ellison, Ralph W. --- Schriftsteller --- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma --- New York, NY --- 1914-1994 --- 01.03.1914-16.04.1994 --- Christopher, Mary, --- Alexander, Margaret Abigail Walker, --- אליסון, ראלף --- Umschulungswerkstätte für Siedler und Auswanderer --- USA --- Bitterfeld --- Federal Writers' Program --- Federal Writers' Projects --- FWP --- United States. --- Writers' Program (U.S.) --- 1913-1994 --- 01.03.1913-16.04.1994 --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Appraisal --- Evaluation

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Today{u2019}s critical establishment assumes that sentimentalism is an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary mode that all but disappeared by the twentieth century. In this book, Jennifer Williamson argues that sentimentalism is alive and well in the modern era. By examining working-class literature that adopts the rhetoric of ?feeling right? in order to promote a proletarian or humanist ideology as well as neo-slave narratives that wrestle with the legacy of slavery and cultural definitions of African American families, she explores the ways contemporary authors engage with familiar sentimental clichés and ideals. Williamson covers new ground by examining authors who are not generally read for their sentimental narrative practices, considering the proletarian novels of Grace Lumpkin, Josephine Johnson, and John Steinbeck alongside neo-slave narratives written by Margaret Walker, Octavia Butler, and Toni Morrison. Through careful close readings, Williamson argues that the appropriation of sentimental modes enables both sympathetic thought and systemic action in the proletarian and neo-slave novels under discussion. She contrasts appropriations that facilitate such cultural work with those that do not, including Kathryn Stockett{u2019}s novel and film The Help. The book outlines how sentimentalism remains a viable and important means of promoting social justice while simultaneously recognizing and exploring how sentimentality can further white privilege. Sentimentalism is not only alive in the twentieth century. It is a flourishing rhetorical practice among a range of twentieth-century authors who use sentimental tactics in order to appeal to their readers about a range of social justice issues. This book demonstrates that at stake in their appeals is who is inside and outside of the American family and nation.

Sentimentalism in literature --- Sentimentalisme dans la littérature --- Sentimentaliteit in de literatuur --- American literature --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- Lumpkin, Grace --- Johnson, Josephine Winslow --- Steinbeck, John --- Walker, Margaret Abigail --- Butler, Octavia E. --- Morrison, Toni --- Sentiments --- Littérature américaine --- Problèmes sociaux --- Littérature et société --- Dans la littérature --- Histoire et critique --- Sentimentalism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Dans la littérature. --- Histoire et critique. --- Sentimentalisme (littérature) --- Sentimentalisme (littérature) --- Littérature américaine --- Problèmes sociaux --- Littérature et société --- Dans la littérature.