American Depression-era literature canon
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The American Depression-era literature canon comprises influential works written during or about the Great Depression that explore economic hardship, social injustice, and the struggles of ordinary Americans.
Observed surface forms (17)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Native Son | 0 |
| The Grapes of Wrath | 0 |
| Let Us Now Praise Famous Men | 0 |
| Call It Sleep | 0 |
| God’s Little Acre | 0 |
| Miss Lonelyhearts | 0 |
| Now in November | 0 |
| Of Mice and Men | 0 |
| The Big Money | 0 |
| The Day of the Locust | 0 |
| The Disinherited | 0 |
| The Good Earth | 0 |
| They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? | 0 |
| Tobacco Road | 0 |
| You Have Seen Their Faces | 0 |
| Studs Lonigan trilogy | 0 |
| U.S.A. trilogy | 0 |
Statements (90)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American literature subfield
ⓘ
literary canon ⓘ |
| author |
Erskine Caldwell
NERFINISHED
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Erskine Caldwell NERFINISHED ⓘ Erskine Caldwell NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Roth NERFINISHED ⓘ Horace McCoy NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Conroy NERFINISHED ⓘ James Agee NERFINISHED ⓘ James T. Farrell NERFINISHED ⓘ John Dos Passos NERFINISHED ⓘ John Dos Passos NERFINISHED ⓘ John Steinbeck NERFINISHED ⓘ John Steinbeck NERFINISHED ⓘ Josephine Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ Nathanael West NERFINISHED ⓘ Nathanael West NERFINISHED ⓘ Pearl S. Buck NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Wright NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasContext |
Dust Bowl
NERFINISHED
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Great Depression in the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ New Deal era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEndTime | late 1930s ⓘ |
| hasForm |
documentary prose
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journalistic writing ⓘ novels ⓘ short stories ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
documentary fiction
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political novel ⓘ proletarian literature ⓘ regionalism ⓘ social realism ⓘ |
| hasStartTime | 1929 ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
American Dream critique
ⓘ
Dust Bowl migration ⓘ class conflict ⓘ displacement ⓘ economic hardship ⓘ family survival ⓘ gender roles ⓘ labor struggle ⓘ migration ⓘ poverty ⓘ racial inequality ⓘ racial oppression ⓘ rural crisis ⓘ social injustice ⓘ tenant farming ⓘ unemployment ⓘ urban hardship ⓘ urban poverty ⓘ |
| hasTimePeriod | Great Depression NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWork |
Call It Sleep
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
God’s Little Acre NERFINISHED ⓘ Let Us Now Praise Famous Men NERFINISHED ⓘ Miss Lonelyhearts NERFINISHED ⓘ Native Son NERFINISHED ⓘ Now in November NERFINISHED ⓘ Of Mice and Men NERFINISHED ⓘ Studs Lonigan trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ The Big Money NERFINISHED ⓘ The Day of the Locust NERFINISHED ⓘ The Disinherited NERFINISHED ⓘ The Good Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ The Grapes of Wrath NERFINISHED ⓘ They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? NERFINISHED ⓘ Tobacco Road NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S.A. trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ You Have Seen Their Faces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | later social protest literature in the United States ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
labor movements
ⓘ
rise of leftist politics in 1930s America ⓘ unemployment crisis in the United States ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| photographer |
Margaret Bourke-White
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Walker Evans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear |
1931
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1932 ⓘ 1933 ⓘ 1933 ⓘ 1933 ⓘ 1934 ⓘ 1934 ⓘ 1935 ⓘ 1936 ⓘ 1937 ⓘ 1939 ⓘ 1939 ⓘ 1940 ⓘ 1941 ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.