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050	0	0	_aPS3505.A322 _bZ75 1995
100	1		_aMixon, Wayne. _918129
245	1	4	_aThe people's writer : _bErskine Caldwell and the South / _cWayne Mixon.
260			_aCharlottesville, Va. : _bUniversity Press of Virginia, _cc1995.
300			_axv, 213 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
440		0	_aMinds of the new South _918130
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 198-208) and index.
520			_a$a During his long life, Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987) published twenty-five novels, nearly one hundred and fifty short stories, and twelve volumes of nonfiction, and he saw his work translated into more than forty languages. For a brief period his writing made him rich. Throughout his career, he was either notorious or renowned, depending on the observer's outlook. His writing was often banned as obscene or pornographic, and many people still regard it as mass-market trash. Most critics have considered Caldwell to be only a minor southern writer, often associating him with his worst writing. Yet Saul Bellow suggested he deserved the Nobel Prize, and William Faulkner once characterized him as one of the five best writers of his time, alongside himself, Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos. Now a Caldwell revival is under way. In The People's Writer, Wayne Mixon gives Caldwell long-overdue recognition, asserting that his portrayal of social injustice raises his work to the level of greatness. Focusing on Caldwell's writings from the thirties and forties, including Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre, Mixon combines intellectual biography, literary criticism, and cultural history to trace the writer's development. He draws on interviews, newspapers, manuscript collections, and Caldwell's writings to explore his ideas about social issues in the American South. Mixon convincingly demonstrates that the writer blended art and argument to issue strong indictments of racism, sexism, otherworldly religion, an economics that bred poverty, and a politics that ignored the most desperate people in the South. Mixon asserts that Caldwell's portrayal of poor whites and blacks, pathbreakingfor its time, qualifies him as one of our great literary realists.
600	1	0	_aCaldwell, Erskine, _918131
650		0	_aLiterature and society _zSouthern States _xHistory _y20th century. _910290
650		0	_aPopular literature _zSouthern States _xHistory and criticism. _918132
650		0	_aSocial problems in literature. _918133
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