The collectivity of life : spaces of social mobility and the individualism myth / / Joel Wendland
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| Autore: |
Wendland Joel <1972->
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| Titolo: |
The collectivity of life : spaces of social mobility and the individualism myth / / Joel Wendland
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| 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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