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ERIC Number: EJ999584
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 17
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1555-9734
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Rediscovering America: The FWP Legacy and Challenge
Hirsch, Jerrold
Community Literacy Journal, v7 n1 p15-31 2012
An overview of the history of the Federal Writers' Project, hitting on critical reference points for our vision of what the project might look like today: the 1930s' FWP's cross-disciplinary integration of literature and history; the rejection of strict divisions between high and low culture; and the bottom-up approach to history that had begun profoundly to influence the discipline of history by the 1970s, embracing previously excluded groups, and gave rise to new sub-disciplines of oral history and public history. Ends with reflections on key questions those of us hoping to see a version of FWP today, many of the very same questions challenges faced by FWP in its first iteration. (Contains 2 endnotes.)
Community Literacy Journal. Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & Discourse, DePaul University, 802 West Belden Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614. Tel: 906-370-0206; Web site: http://communityliteracy.org/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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