{"product_id":"writers-and-miners-activism-and-imagery-in-america-9780813193472","title":"Writers and Miners: Activism and Imagery in America","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David C. Duke\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University Press of Kentucky\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Kentucky\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - Regional\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoal miners evoke admiration and sympathy from the public, and writers -- some seeking a muse, others a cause -- traditionally champion them. David C. Duke explores more than one hundred years of this tradition in literature, poetry, drama, and film. Duke argues that as most writers spoke about rather than to the mining community, miners became stock characters in an industrial morality play, robbed of individuality or humanity. He discusses activist-writers such as John Reed, Theodore Dreiser, and Denise Giardina, who assisted striking workers, and looks at the writing of miners themselves. He examines portrayals of miners from \u003ci\u003eThe Trail of the Lonesome Pine\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eMatewan\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Kentucky Cycle\u003c\/i\u003e. The most comprehensive study on the subject to date, \u003ci\u003eWriters and Miners\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the vexed political and creative relationship between activists and artists and those they seek to represent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Kentucky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46890684416151,"sku":"9780813193472","price":2821.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780813193472.webp?v=1770270312","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/writers-and-miners-activism-and-imagery-in-america-9780813193472","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}