Frankie and Johnny : Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (272 pages)
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Frankie and Johnny Take Center Stage: African American Folk Culture in 1930s America -- 2. Lead Belly's Ninth Symphony: Huddie Ledbetter and the Changing Contours of American Folk Music -- 3. Pistol Packin' Mama: Imperiled Masculinity in Thomas Hart Benton's A Social History of the State of Missouri -- 4. Whiteface Marionettes: John Huston's Comic Melodrama -- 5. The Finest Woman Ever to Walk the Streets: Mae West's Outlaw Exploits in She Done Him Wrong -- 6. The Lynching of Johnny: Sterling Brown's Social Realist Critique -- Epilogue. African American Women's Voices and the Tightrope of Respectability -- Notes -- Index.
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