Ryan Poll

Main Street and Empire: The Fictional Small Town in the Age of Globalization

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Argues that the small town, as evoked by the image of 'Main Street' is not a relic of the past but rather a metaphorical screen upon which the US's everyday stories and subjects are projected on both a national and global level. It brings together a wide range of literary, cultural, and political texts to examine how the small town is used to imagine and reproduce the US throughout the twentieth- and into the twenty-first century.

Produktdetails

• American Literatures Initiativ
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Altersempfehlung: 18 bis 22 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780813552903
• ISBN-10: 0813552907
• Artikelnr.: 34947991

Autorenporträt

Poll, Ryan

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Small Town as Modern Nation Form
1. Sacred Islands in Modernity: The Prehistory of the Dominant Small Town
2. An Unfinished Revolution: "The Revolt from the Village" Reconsidered
3. Mapping the Modern Small Town: A Circular Imaginary
4. A New Machine in the Small-Town Garden: Periodizing an Automodernity
5. The Formation of a U.S. Fascist Aesthetics; or, Welcome to Main Street
6. Staging and Archiving the Nation: Pedagogical Theater, Thornton Wilder's
Our Town, and U.S. Imperialism
7. "One Happy World": The Postmodern Small Town and the Small-Town
Postmodern
8. Global Belonging: The Small Town as the World's Home
Afterword: The Global Village
Notes
Bibliography
Index