In this Book
- Creating a Hoosier Self-Portrait: The Federal Writers' Project in Indiana, 1935-1942
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: Indiana University Press
summary
From 1935 to 1942, the Indiana office of the Federal Writers' Program hired unemployed writers as "field workers" to create a portrait in words of the land, the people, and the culture of the Hoosier state. This book tells the story of the project and its valuable legacy. Beginning work under the guidance of Ross Lockridge, whose son would later burst onto the American literary scene with his novel Raintree County, the group would eventually produce Indiana: A Guide to the Hoosier State, Hoosier Tall Stories, and other publications. Though many projects were never brought to completion, the Program's work remains a useful and rarely tapped storehouse of information on the history and culture of the state.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-5
- One: The National Context
- pp. 6-27
- Two: The Hoosier Situation
- pp. 28-48
- Three: The Indiana Guide
- pp. 49-79
- Four: Other Publications
- pp. 80-106
- Five: Oral History
- pp. 107-129
- Six: Almost Finished Projects
- pp. 130-150
- Seven: Incomplete Projects
- pp. 151-173
- Eight: Research Inventories
- pp. 174-196
- Nine: Conclusions and Legacy
- pp. 197-212
- Bibliography
- pp. 241-250
Additional Information
ISBN
9780253023544
Related ISBN(s)
9780253345691
MARC Record
OCLC
956954025
Pages
280
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No