LEADER 03684nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910786249203321 005 20230721044820.0 010 $a979-88-908734-6-0 010 $a1-4696-0674-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000340666 035 $a(EBL)934374 035 $a(OCoLC)831121190 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000835160 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12334468 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000835160 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10989586 035 $a(PQKB)11056607 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL934374 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10676057 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL930632 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC934374 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000340666 100 $a20060821d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCritical regionalism$b[electronic resource] $econnecting politics and culture in the American landscape /$fDouglas Reichert Powell 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (275 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8078-5794-7 311 $a0-8078-3091-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [241]-248) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $aIJ; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y 330 $aThe 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 606 $aRegionalism$zUnited States$vCase studies 606 $aPolitics and culture$zUnited States$vCase studies 606 $aRegionalism$zAppalachian Region, Southern 606 $aRegionalism$zTennessee$zJohnson City 606 $aPolitics and culture$zAppalachian Region, Southern 606 $aPolitics and culture$zTennessee$zJohnson City 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFilm criticism$zUnited States 607 $aAppalachian Region, Southern$xPolitics and government 607 $aAppalachian Region, Southern$xGeography 615 0$aRegionalism 615 0$aPolitics and culture 615 0$aRegionalism 615 0$aRegionalism 615 0$aPolitics and culture 615 0$aPolitics and culture 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFilm criticism 676 $a911/.75 700 $aReichert Powell$b Douglas$01552635 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786249203321 996 $aCritical regionalism$93812677 997 $aUNINA