Driven to the Field: Sharecropping and Southern Literature

ISBN-13: 9780813948652 / Angielski

David A. Davis

Opis

Traces the culture of sharecropping - crucial to understanding life in the southern United States - from Emancipation to the twenty-first century. By reading dozens of works of literature in their historical context, David Davis demonstrates how sharecropping emerged, endured for a century, and continues to resonate in American culture.