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OverviewCoal miners evoke admiration and sympathy from the public, and writers -- some seeking a muse, others a cause -- traditionally champion them. David C. Duke explores more than one hundred years of this tradition in literature, poetry, drama, and film. Duke argues that as most writers spoke about rather than to the mining community, miners became stock characters in an industrial morality play, robbed of individuality or humanity. He discusses activist-writers such as John Reed, Theodore Dreiser, and Denise Giardina, who assisted striking workers, and looks at the writing of miners themselves. He examines portrayals of miners from The Trail of the Lonesome Pine to Matewan and The Kentucky Cycle. The most comprehensive study on the subject to date, Writers and Miners investigates the vexed political and creative relationship between activists and artists and those they seek to represent. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David C. DukePublisher: The University Press of Kentucky Imprint: The University Press of Kentucky Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9780813122373ISBN 10: 0813122376 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 13 September 2002 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock Table of ContentsReviews<p> Duke's attempt to shatter the myths that surround mining is welcome, particularly as the industry moves away from traditional mining practices, and serves to tell us that stereotyping is not exclusive to ethnicity or region. -- Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Author InformationDavid C. Duke, professor of history at Marshall University, is the author of Distant Obligations: Modern American Writers and Foreign Causes. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |