| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

David C. Duke. Writers and Miners: Activism and Imagery in America. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2002. Pp. 275. $45.00.

David C. Duke sets out to document the political and creative relationship between American writer-activists and the coal miners about whom they wrote. The primary thesis of his book is that the texts produced by these writer-activists typically do not accurately represent coal miners as individual personalities; rather, they construct coal miners as one-dimensional, stereotypical characters or cultural "others" who have been dehumanized by their dangerous occupation. 1

Duke begins by discussing various writers from the first half of the twentieth century and continues in subsequent chapters to contrast these writers with the later, more dialogical writing and activism of Don West and Denise Giardina. These two, along with a few children's writers and the miner-poets published in the United Mine Workers Journal, turn out be exceptions to a pattern that Duke repeatedly identifies: most texts about coal mining objectify and stereotype miners. . . .

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