Critical regionalism : Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape

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Label

Critical regionalism : Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape

Title remainder

Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape

Creator

• Powell, Douglas Reichert

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• Appalachian Region, Southern -- Geography
• Appalachian Region, Southern -- Politics and government
• Electronic books
• Film criticism -- United States
• Politics and culture -- Appalachian Region, Southern
• Politics and culture -- Tennessee | Johnson City
• American literature -- History and criticism
• Regionalism -- Appalachian Region, Southern
• Regionalism -- Tennessee | Johnson City
• Regionalism -- United States -- Case studies
• Politics and culture -- United States -- Case studies

Genre

• Case studies

Language

eng

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 towns." He enacts a new methodology of critical regionalism in order to link local concerns and debates to larger patterns of history, politics, and culture. To illustrate his method, in each chapter of the book Reichert Powell juxtaposes widely known texts from American literature and film with texts from and about his own Appalachian hometown of Johnson City, Tennessee. He carries the idea further in a call for a critical regionalist pedagogy that uses the classroom as a place for academic writers to build new connections with their surroundings, and to teach others to do so as well

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

• 911.75
• 911/.75

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult