James Agee (text)

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James Agee (text) is the lyrical, introspective prose by American writer James Agee that accompanies Walker Evans’s photographs in the documentary work *Let Us Now Praise Famous Men*, portraying the lives of impoverished tenant farmers in the 1930s American South.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary work ⓘ
nonfiction prose ⓘ
accompanies Walker Evans’s photographs ⓘ
author James Agee ⓘ
collaboratesWith Walker Evans ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States ⓘ
documents conditions of sharecropping ⓘ
lives of tenant farmers ⓘ
focusesOnLocation rural Alabama ⓘ
form extended essay ⓘ
genre documentary literature ⓘ
introspective prose ⓘ
lyrical prose ⓘ
historicalContext Great Depression ⓘ
language English ⓘ
literaryMovement American modernism ⓘ
medium prose ⓘ
partOf Let Us Now Praise Famous Men ⓘ
relatedWork Let Us Now Praise Famous Men ⓘ
setting American South ⓘ
style experimental ⓘ
poetic ⓘ
stream-of-consciousness ⓘ
subject impoverished tenant farmers ⓘ
theme American rural life ⓘ
dignity of labor ⓘ
human suffering ⓘ
poverty ⓘ
social injustice ⓘ
timePeriodDescribed 1930s ⓘ

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