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Nelson, Cary Hanley, Lawrence Francis 2011-05-07T13:29:50Z 2011-05-07T13:29:50Z 10000-01-01 1994 This revisionist study of American culture and politics in the 1930s examines the shifting definitions and relations of culture amidst the economic and social crisis of the Depression era. In the decade's popular fiction, advertising, travel writing, political discourses, and literature, the desire to represent social difference--particularly class difference--produces a consistently contradictory and unstable cultural terrain. More particularly, this desire subverts established modes of cultural representation by exposing the repressed social relations that underpin the universal claims of culture, high and low. From the rhetoric of labor giant, John L. Lewis, to proletarian fiction by writers like Jack Conroy and Josephine Herbst, the dilemma at the heart of the decade's cultural work revolves around the difficulties of communicating human experience across social boundaries of status and class. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:29:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9503206.pdf: 15850298 bytes, checksum: 4d026b01da82425a279642374b4dffb2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1994 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:55:31Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:25:52-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9503206 (UMI)AAI9503206 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/22127 eng Copyright 1994 Hanley, Lawrence Francis American Studies History, United States Literature, American Culture and crisis: Radical writers and writing in the 1930s text English English University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.