Tang and Tone
Stephen Fender: The Federal Writer’s Project’s American epic, 18 March 2004
Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers’ Project
by Jerrold Hirsch.
North Carolina, 293 pp., £16.50, November 2003,0 8078 5489 1 Show More
by Jerrold Hirsch.
North Carolina, 293 pp., £16.50, November 2003,
“... was the impetus given to the careers of black authors: Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison were given their first chance by the FWP. Its ambition was to create – or rather to discover – a great American epic in the acts and words of ordinary men and women: to draw from the disregarded speech and customs of the people the underlying ... ”