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.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NCSU/oai:NCSU:etd-05172004-170009 |
Date | 20 May 2004 |
Creators | Roebuck, Daire Elizabeth |
Contributors | Dr. Pamela Tyler, Dr. Walter Jackson, Dr. David Zonderman |
Publisher | NCSU |
Source Sets | North Carolina State University |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | text |
Format | application/pdf |
Source | http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-05172004-170009/ |
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