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Author Powell, Douglas Reichert

Title Critical regionalism : Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (275 pages)
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
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Summary 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
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Subject Regionalism -- United States -- Case studies
Politics and culture -- United States -- Case studies
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
HISTORY -- Historical Geography.
American literature
Film criticism
Geography
Politics and government
Politics and culture
Regionalism
SUBJECT Appalachian Region, Southern -- Politics and government
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Geography
Subject Southern Appalachian Region
Tennessee -- Johnson City
United States
Genre/Form Case studies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469606743
1469606747