Voices of Persuasion

by Michael E. Staub

Book Overview

In this innovative study, Michael Staub recasts 1930s cultural history by analysing those genres so characteristic of the Depression era: Staub argues that several thirties writers - precisely because of their encounters with disinherited peoples - anticipated the dilemmas poststructuralist theory would identify; an awareness of the ambiguousness of historical truth, and the impossibility of representing reality without being complicit in its distortion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521111943
• ISBN13: 9780521111942
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"