The Grapes of Wrath et contestation

📋 Plan du Cours

1. La Grande Dépression et le Dust Bowl
2. Steinbeck et la genèse du roman
3. Le sens du titre du roman
4. Les techniques descriptives de Steinbeck
5. Dialogue et langage populaire
6. Figures de style et effets
7. Narration omnisciente et perspectives
8. Injustice sociale et solidarité

📖 1. La Grande Dépression et le Dust Bowl

★ À maîtriser

• By 1935, drought and poor farming practices in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, and Texas had caused topsoil erosion across the Great Plains, an affected region called the Dust Bowl.

• In the late 1930s, all-purpose tractors enabled large landowners to dispense with tenant farmers’ labor and evict many tenants from their homes.

• Displaced farmers moved toward California, where as many as 30,000 migrants competed for available jobs in the fertile farming valleys.

Compléments

• By the late 1930s, a majority of the approximately 1.8 million tenant farmers in the South had been evicted from their homes.

💡 Astuce mémo

Sécheresse et mauvaises pratiques → érosion → Dust Bowl

📖 2. Steinbeck et la genèse du roman

📝 Points essentiels