The whole machinery : the rural modern in cultures of the U.S. South, 1890-1946 /

A familiar story holds that modernization radiates out from metropolitan origins. The whole machinery explores representations of people and places, objects and occasions, that reverse that trajectory, demonstrating how modernizing agents move in a contrary direction as well--from the country to cit...

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主要作者: Child, Ben (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Athens [Georgia] : The University of Georgia Press, [2019]
叢編:New southern studies.
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書本目錄:
  • Introduction. Limning the land
  • Cultures of black agriculture
  • "The true reconstruction of the country" in Iola Leroy and the plantation
  • Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • "Strange vicissitudes": dirt, progress, and the modern
  • Other agrarian
  • Making it old in the New South; or, The leisure agrarians cultivate the folk
  • Disinherited speech acts: the body as archive in labor agrarianism
  • Migratory modernism
  • Station to station: New York City and the returns of the rural
  • Coda. Uneven ground.