| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

Reading Southern Poverty between the Wars, 1918–1939. Ed. by Richard Godden and Martin Crawford. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006. xvi, 247 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2708-2.)
The goal of this anthology, according to the editors, was to draw readers "into new ways of thinking about the representation of southern poverty by setting side by side contributions from the disciplines of literature, history, and cultural history" (p. xii). The contributors are a mix of American and British scholars, and they examine representations of poverty from the 1920s and 1930s, primarily in photographs and novels.	1
The volume mostly succeeds in demonstrating the opportunities for southern historians to benefit from literary and cultural analysis. With a couple of exceptions, the essays are mercifully free of jargon, making them accessible to scholars less well versed with literary lines of analysis. If nothing else, the anthology should stimulate interest by historians in lesser known southern novels and memoirs. I found myself dashing off to the library looking for Grace Lumpkin's To Make My Bread (1932) and John Spivak's On the Chain Gang (1932).	. . .

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