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Critical regionalism : connecting politics and culture in the American landscape / Douglas Reichert Powell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reichert Powell, Douglas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Regionalism--United States--Case studies.
- Regionalism.
- Politics and culture--United States--Case studies.
- Politics and culture.
- Regionalism--Appalachian Region, Southern.
- Regionalism--Tennessee--Johnson City.
- Politics and culture--Appalachian Region, Southern.
- Politics and culture--Tennessee--Johnson City.
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Film criticism--United States.
- Film criticism.
- Appalachian Region, Southern--Politics and government.
- Appalachian Region, Southern.
- Appalachian Region, Southern--Geography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (275 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The idea of ""region"" in America has often served to isolate places from each other, observes Douglas Reichert Powell. Whether in the nostalgic celebration of folk cultures or the urbane distaste for ""hicks,"" certain regions of the country are identified as static, insular, and culturally disconnected from everywhere else. In Critical Regionalism, Reichert Powell explores this trend and offers alternatives to it.Reichert Powell proposes using more nuanced strategies that identify distinctive aspects of particular geographically marginal communities without turning them into peculiar ""hick
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: There's Something about Mary: The Practice of Critical Regionalism; 1. Rhetorics of Place and Region: An Appalachian Trail; 2. From the Playground to the Dumping Ground: Making Regional Connections in Unlikely Places; 3. Panoramas of Gore and Other Social Inventions: Region on Film; 4. We Have Only Words Against: Toward a Critical Regionalist Literature; 5. Scholar Holler: Critical Regionalism and the University; Epilogue: There's Something about Mary (Reprise): Mrs. Edwards and Me; Appendix: Durham Stories; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H
- IJ; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-248) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890873460
- 9781469606743
- 1469606747
- OCLC:
- 831121190
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