Mapping American Culture (American Land & Life Series) - Hardcover

Franklin, Wayne; Steiner, Michael

9780877453796: Mapping American Culture (American Land & Life Series)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0877453799 ISBN 13: 9780877453796

Publisher: University of Iowa Press, 1992

Eleven original essays address the ways in which space has worked to condition everyday life as well as the "grand actions" of American experience, reading the American landscape through literature, folklore, music, oral history, autobiography, architecture, and photography. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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Review:

"This book is a timely and welcome addition to the literature on place and American culture."--"Geographical Review"

This book is a timely and welcome addition to the literature on place and American culture. "Geographical Review""

From the Back Cover:

What connections can be drawn between oral history and the shopping mall? Gospel music and the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant? William Carlos Williams's Paterson and the Manhattan Project's secret cities? The answers lie in this insightful collection of essays that read and illuminate the American landscape. Through literature and folklore, music and oral history, autobiography, architecture, and photography, eleven leading writers and thinkers explore the dialectic between space and place in modern American life. The result is an eloquent and provocative reminder of the environmental context of events - the deceptively simple fact that events "take place".

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