ERIC Number: EJ999584
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Publication Date: 2012
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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.)
Descriptors: Literature, History, Interdisciplinary Approach, Writing (Composition), Federal Programs, United States History, Culture, North Americans, Social Attitudes, Information Dissemination, Folk Culture, Political Attitudes, Conflict, Oral History, Comparative Analysis
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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