Critical regionalism : Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape.

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 a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Powell, Douglas Reichert
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=461031
Table of 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