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Autore: | Wendland Joel <1972-> |
Titolo: | The collectivity of life : spaces of social mobility and the individualism myth / / Joel Wendland |
Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016 |
©2016 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
Disciplina: | 305.5/13 |
Soggetto topico: | Social mobility |
Group identity | |
Individualism | |
Space | |
Discourse analysis, Narrative | |
Ethnology - Biographical methods | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Introduction; 1 Theory; 2 Myth-busting; 3 Spaces for Cultural Literacy; 4 Space and the Overdetermination of "Choice"; 5 Articulating Space; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
Sommario/riassunto: | This book reads twentieth-century autobiography and oral histories spatially to unearth how writers and activists understood social mobility as a collective process. In so doing, they constructed a counter-mythology to the American dream myth of individualism. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The collectivity of life |
ISBN: | 1-4985-1396-4 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910824807303321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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