Margaret Jarman Hagood's Mothers of the South as Sociological Documentary

tenant farmwomen;documentary;Hagood

Roebuck, Daire Elizabeth ; Dr. Pamela Tyler, Committee Chair,Dr. Walter Jackson, Committee Member,Dr. David Zonderman, Committee Member,Roebuck, Daire Elizabeth ; Dr. Pamela Tyler ; Committee Chair ; Dr. Walter Jackson ; Committee Member ; Dr. David Zonderman ; Committee Member

University:North Carolina State University

关键词: tenant farmwomen;    documentary;    Hagood;   

Others  :  https://repository.lib.ncsu.edu/bitstream/handle/1840.16/1001/etd.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

美国|英语

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【 摘 要 】

The purpose of this study is to discuss why and how Margaret Jarman Hagood's 1939 monograph, Mothers of the South: Portraiture of the White Tenant Farm Woman, was a unique contribution to the sociological and documentary study of the rural white woman in the South during the Great Depression.Hagood's work represents a lasting document of how these women experienced the poverty of the South during the 1930s.Mothers of the South is also part of a larger intellectual and aesthetic movement during the period known as documentary.Her work is compared and contrasted with a selection of its predecessors along with how her work was unique in its focus on rural white mothers.