03684nam 2200745 a 450 991078624920332120230721044820.0979-88-908734-6-01-4696-0674-7(CKB)2670000000340666(EBL)934374(OCoLC)831121190(SSID)ssj0000835160(PQKBManifestationID)12334468(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000835160(PQKBWorkID)10989586(PQKB)11056607(Au-PeEL)EBL934374(CaPaEBR)ebr10676057(CaONFJC)MIL930632(MiAaPQ)EBC934374(EXLCZ)99267000000034066620060821d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCritical regionalism[electronic resource] connecting politics and culture in the American landscape /Douglas Reichert PowellChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20071 online resource (275 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5794-7 0-8078-3091-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-248) and index.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; HIJ; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; YThe 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 RegionalismUnited StatesCase studiesPolitics and cultureUnited StatesCase studiesRegionalismAppalachian Region, SouthernRegionalismTennesseeJohnson CityPolitics and cultureAppalachian Region, SouthernPolitics and cultureTennesseeJohnson CityAmerican literatureHistory and criticismFilm criticismUnited StatesAppalachian Region, SouthernPolitics and governmentAppalachian Region, SouthernGeographyRegionalismPolitics and cultureRegionalismRegionalismPolitics and culturePolitics and cultureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Film criticism911/.75Reichert Powell Douglas1552635MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786249203321Critical regionalism3812677UNINA