Looking Inward Looking Outward From the 1930s through the 1940s

Preface
Steve Ickringill, University of Ulster iii

Introduction
Looking Inward and Outward in the Thirties - t.'ie
Construction of a National Identity
Heinz Ickstadt, John F. Kennedy Institute, Berlin 1

The First Focus
American Literature and the Coming of World War II
Malcolm Bradbury, University of East Anglia 8
Anthropological and Sociological Tendencies in American
Literature of the 1930's and 1940's: Richard Wright,
Zoral Neale Hurston, and American Culture
Werner Sollors, Harvard University 22
Make the Past New; or, A Family History
Alide Cagidemetrio, University of Venice 76
The Radical Imagination: Revisionary Modes of Radical
Cultural Criticism in Thirties America
Gunter H Lenz, University of Frankfurt 94
Zora Neale Hurston, The Black Woman Writer in the
Thirties and Forties (Part 1); Moses, Man of Power, Man
of Knowledge (Part 2)
Luisanna Fodde and Paola Boi, University of Cagliari 127
Moses, Man of Power: A "Signifying" Reading of Zora
Paola Boi, University of Cagliari 136

The Second Focus
Looking Inward, Looking Backward, Looking Outward:
The "Europeanization" of America, 1929-1950
William E. Leuchtburg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 151
How did the New Deal Change the South?
Tony Badger, University of Newcastle 166
American Women during World War II
William H. Chafe, Duke University 184
The Meaning of `Americanization' for Italian Immigrant
Women in the 1930's and 1940's
Maddalena Tirabassi, University of Venice 195
Complaining with a Loaf of Bread Under Each Arm
Henry A. Christian, Newark Campus of Rutgers University 202


Moralism, Presentism, Exceptionalism, Provincialism,
and other Extravagances in American Writings of the
Early Cold War Years
Geir Lundestad University of Tromső 214
America in Germany: The Post War Period
Ralph Willett, University of Hull 237
The Demise of Agrarianism
Tjebbe A. Westendorp, Leiden University 250

An Altemative Focus?
Redeeming City and Farm: The Iconography of the New
Deal Photography
David Nye, Copenhagen University 255
Totem Poles and the Indian New Deal
Aldona Jonaitis, State University of New York at Stony Brook 268
Looking Homeward, Artists: American Painting in the
1930's and 1940's
Townsend Ludington, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 279