James Agee (text)

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James Agee (text) is the lyrical, introspective prose by American writer James Agee that accompanies Walker Evans’s photographs in the documentary work *Let Us Now Praise Famous Men*, portraying the lives of impoverished tenant farmers in the 1930s American South.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary work
nonfiction prose
accompanies Walker Evans’s photographs
author James Agee
collaboratesWith Walker Evans
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
documents conditions of sharecropping
lives of tenant farmers
focusesOnLocation rural Alabama
form extended essay
genre documentary literature
introspective prose
lyrical prose
historicalContext Great Depression
language English
literaryMovement American modernism
medium prose
partOf Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans)
surface form: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
relatedWork Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans)
surface form: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
setting Southern United States
surface form: American South
style experimental
poetic
stream-of-consciousness
subject impoverished tenant farmers
theme American rural life
dignity of labor
human suffering
poverty
social injustice
timePeriodDescribed 1930s

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