Creating a Hoosier Self-Portrait : The Federal Writers' Project in Indiana, 1935-1942

George T. Blakey

ISBN 10: 0253345693 / ISBN 13: 9780253345691

Edité par Indiana University Press Apr 2005, 2005

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Neuware - From 1935 to 1942, the Indiana office of the Federal Writers' Program hired unemployed writers as 'field workers' to create a portrait in words of the land, the people, and the culture of the Hoosier state. This book tells the story of the project and its valuable legacy. Beginning work under the guidance of Ross Lockridge, whose son would later burst onto the American literary scene with his novel Raintree County, the group would eventually produce Indiana: A Guide to the Hoosier State, Hoosier Tall Stories, and other publications. Though many projects were never brought to completion, the Program's work remains a useful and rarely tapped storehouse of information on the history and culture of the state.

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• Titre: Creating a Hoosier Self-Portrait : The Federal Writers' Project in Indiana, 1935-1942
• Éditeur: Indiana University Press Apr 2005
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0253345693
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780253345691
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 240 L x 161 H x 19 P (en millimètres) 240 millimètres de largeur par 161 millimètres de hauteur par 19 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 592 grammes

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Synopsis

From 1935 to 1942, the Indiana office of the Federal Writers' Program hired unemployed writers as "field workers" to create a portrait in words of the land, the people, and the culture of the Hoosier state. This book tells the story of the project and its valuable legacy. Beginning work under the guidance of Ross Lockridge, whose son would later burst onto the American literary scene with his novel Raintree County, the group would eventually produce Indiana: A Guide to the Hoosier State, Hoosier Tall Stories, and other publications. Though many projects were never brought to completion, the Program's work remains a useful and rarely tapped storehouse of information on the history and culture of the state.

À propos de l?auteur

George T. Blakey is Professor (emeritus) of American and Indiana History at Indiana University East.