The American white novelists commitment during the depression era in Ernest Hemingway's "To have and have not" (1937), and John Steinbeck's the "Grapes of wrath" (1939)
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2015
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university of Oum-El-Bouaghi
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The present study examines the effects of the great depression on the american society, and how it turned it into a materialistic society. It is also interested in the reflection of this severe era in literature, and how many writers, particularly the whites have changed their ideologies, and become communist writers. So, this research focuses on the depiction of 1930's downturn in Hemingway's To Have and Have not (1937) and Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939). It shows how both writers manage to depict the socioeconomic context of 1930's and criticize its effects. The white writers give more importance to the political commitment over the aesthetic aspect.
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Novel : Ernest Hemingway : To have and have not, Novel : John Steinbeck : Grapes of wrath