{"product_id":"unknown-no-more-recovering-sanora-babb-9780806169361","title":"Unknown No More: Recovering Sanora Babb","description":"Thanks in part to the Ken Burns documentary \u003ci\u003eThe Dust Bowl\u003c\/i\u003e, Sanora Babb is perhaps best known today for her novel \u003ci\u003eWhose Names Are Unknown \u003c\/i\u003e(2004), which might have been published in 1939 had her publisher not thought the market too small for two Dust Bowl novels, hers and Steinbeck's \u003ci\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/i\u003e. Into the twenty-first century, Babb wrote and published lyrical prose and poetry that revealed her prescient ideas about gender, race, and the environment. The essays collected in \u003ci\u003eUnknown No More \u003c\/i\u003erecover and analyze her previously unrecognized contributions to American letters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Editors Joanne Dearcopp and Christine Hill Smith have assembled a group of distinguished scholars who, for the first time in book-length form, explore the life and work of Sanora Babb. This collection of pathbreaking essays addresses Babb's position within the literature of the Great Plains and American West, her leftist political odyssey as a card-carrying Communist who ultimately broke with the Party, and her ecofeminist leanings as reflected in the environmental themes she explored in her fiction and nonfiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With literary sensibilities reminiscent of Willa Cather, Ralph Ellison, and Meridel LeSueur, Babb's work revealed gender-based, environmental, and working-class injustices from the Depression era to the late twentieth century. No longer unknown, Sanora Babb's life and work form a prism through which the peril and promise of twentieth-century America may be seen. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDearcopp, Joanne:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJoanne Dearcopp, \u003c\/b\u003eSanora Babb's literary executor and agent, is an author, writing coach, and publisher. She has worked at Simon \u0026amp; Schuster, McCall Books, and Grolier Publishing.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmith, Christine Hill:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eChristine Hill Smith \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Humanities\/Communication at Colorado Mountain College and the author of \u003ci\u003eSocial Class in the Writings of Mary Hallock Foote \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor of \u003ci\u003eSites of Insight: Colorado Sacred Places. \u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50929705517330,"sku":"9780806169361","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3a6fa117-b7d0-4f2b-8e79-800bdfb605ae.jpg?v=1739049583","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/unknown-no-more-recovering-sanora-babb-9780806169361","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}