In the early nineteenth century, the southern poor white had a reputation for comic vulgarity and absurd violence, postbellum writers saw him as a quaint peasant, the 1920s transformed him into a revolutionary proletarian. Of the literary treatments discussed, Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath emerges as a skillful compromise of documentary accuracy and political daring by reviving the tradition of degeneracy.Originally published in 1976.A UNC Press...
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