Such As Us: Southern Voices of the Thirties
(eBook)

Book Cover
Average Rating
Published
The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
Status
Available Online

Description

Loading Description...

Also in this Series

Checking series information...

More Like This

Loading more titles like this title...

More Details

Format
eBook
Language
English
ISBN
9781469639925

Reviews from GoodReads

Loading GoodReads Reviews.

Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Various Authors., & Various Authors|AUTHOR. (2017). Such As Us: Southern Voices of the Thirties . The University of North Carolina Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Various Authors and Various Authors|AUTHOR. 2017. Such As Us: Southern Voices of the Thirties. The University of North Carolina Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Various Authors and Various Authors|AUTHOR. Such As Us: Southern Voices of the Thirties The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Various Authors, and Various Authors|AUTHOR. Such As Us: Southern Voices of the Thirties The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.

Staff View

Go To Grouped Work

Grouping Information

Grouped Work ID539c40fd-8c42-3de9-35c0-a0f3cab1ee5a-eng
Full titlesuch as us southern voices of the thirties
Authorauthors various
Grouping Categorybook
Last Update2023-08-27 19:05:04PM
Last Indexed2024-03-28 03:26:39AM

Book Cover Information

Image Sourcehoopla
First LoadedJan 5, 2024
Last UsedJan 5, 2024

Hoopla Extract Information

stdClass Object
(
    [year] => 2017
    [artist] => Various Authors
    [fiction] => 
    [coverImageUrl] => https://cover.hoopladigital.com/csp_9781469639925_270.jpeg
    [titleId] => 12130656
    [isbn] => 9781469639925
    [abridged] => 
    [language] => ENGLISH
    [profanity] => 
    [title] => Such As Us
    [demo] => 
    [segments] => Array
        (
        )

    [pages] => 328
    [children] => 
    [artists] => Array
        (
            [0] => stdClass Object
                (
                    [name] => Various Authors
                    [artistFormal] => Various Authors, 
                    [relationship] => AUTHOR
                )

        )

    [genres] => Array
        (
            [0] => History
            [1] => State & Local - South
            [2] => United States
        )

    [price] => 2.49
    [id] => 12130656
    [edited] => 
    [kind] => EBOOK
    [active] => 1
    [upc] => 
    [synopsis] => When These Are Our Lives was first published by The University of North Carolina Press in 1939, the late Charles A. Beard hailed it as "literature more powerful than anything I have read in fiction, not excluding Zola's most vehement passages." A very early experiment in the publication of oral history, it consisted of thirty-five life histories of sharecroppers, farmers, mill workers, townspeople, and the unemployed of the Southeast, selected from over a thousand such histories collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s.  It was the Press' intention to publish several more volumes from the material that had been amassed, but World War II forced the cancellation of those plans.  The editors of Such As Us have taken up the abandoned task and have produced a volume every bit as rich as its predecessor.  From the perspective of forty years we can now read these stories as vivid chapters in the social history of the South, reaching as far back as slavery times and as far forward as the eve of World War II.  To the modern reader the people speaking in this book may at first seem quaint, like curious from a past time and a different world.  They worked on farms, in mills, oil fields, coal mines, and other people's homes.  Their life histories provide a view of the world they saw, experienced, and helped to create.  They tell about family life, religion, sex roles, being poor, and getting old, and they describe how major events -- the Civil War, Emancipation, World War I, the Great Depression, and the New Deal -- affected them.  These accounts offer the reader the chance to experience vicariously the world these people lived in -- to know, for example, the wife of the tenant farmer who commented, "We seem to move around in circles like the mule that pulls the syrup mill.  We are never still, but we never get anywhere."  Such as Us is a contribution to the history of anonymous Americans.  Like the former-slave narratives, which have become an important primary source for the historian, these life histories will enable the reader to reexamine traditional views and address new questions about the South.  By providing an introduction and historical interchapters that place the histories in perspective, the editors set these histories within the cultural context of the 1930s and illustrate the relationship between private lives and public events.  These life histories allow individuals to reach across time and share their lives with us.  Although the people who speak in Such As Us are representatives of social types and classes, they are also unique individuals -- a paradoxical truth their life histories affirm.
    [url] => https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12130656
    [pa] => 
    [subtitle] => Southern Voices of the Thirties
    [publisher] => The University of North Carolina Press
    [purchaseModel] => INSTANT
)