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Dark Mirror

African Americans and the Federal Writers' Project
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Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers' Project explores Black writers' engagement with the emerging welfare state. J. J. Butts highlights the conflicting understandings of culture and modernity that pervaded the New Deal's most ambitious and important cultural project of the 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP). FWP guidebooks produced by African American writers such as Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison introduced an inclusive, pluralist understanding of the nation's culture and history. Using sociological discourses of urban pathology, they justified rebuilding landscapes to remedy social ills as part of a broader agenda for modernization. Drawing on archival research and textual analysis, Dark Mirror shows how FWP guidebooks sought to minimize the tensions between pluralism and modernization, often at the expense of the former. It also demonstrates how Black FWP authors responded to these ideas in FWP texts and in their own narrative and documentary writing. Highlighting the deep racial currents undercutting the promises of the welfare state, these texts provide what Richard Wright called a "dark mirror" for the nation, setting up new modes of engagement with liberalism and reshaping African American literature.

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J. J. Butts is Associate Professor of English at Simpson College.
Release date Australia
July 8th, 2024
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188
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  • General (US: Trade)
ISBN-13
9780814258033
Product ID
38658547

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