Ethnographic pilgrimages in Depression-era America.

Mosaic (Winnipeg) | December 1, 2003| | Copyright

Many writers in the United States during the 1930s, feeling that fiction no longer adequately conveyed the devastating impact of the Depression, turned to what Edmund Wilson termed "straight reporting" (n.pag.); with great earnestness they aspired to get reality right. James Agee, Erskine Caldwell, Sherwood Anderson, Louis Adamic, Theodore Dreiser, Wilson, and others who took to America's highways, country roads, and city streets "worshiped at the altar of social fact" (Russell 18). As literary pilgrims, they held a common faith in the transforming power of direct observation ...

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