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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786249203321

Autore

Reichert Powell Douglas

Titolo

Critical regionalism [[electronic resource] ] : connecting politics and culture in the American landscape / / Douglas Reichert Powell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007

ISBN

979-88-908734-6-0

1-4696-0674-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 p.)

Disciplina

911/.75

Soggetti

Regionalism - United States

Politics and culture - United States

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

Film criticism - United States

Appalachian Region, Southern Politics and government

Appalachian Region, Southern Geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-248) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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