Main Street and Empire: The Fictional Small Town in The Age of Globalization
- 作者:Poll,Ryan
- 出版社:Baker & Taylor Books
- 出版日期:2012-04-06
- 語言:英文
- ISBN10:0813552907
- ISBN13:9780813552903
- 裝訂:平裝 / 16.5 x 23.5 x 1.9 cm / 普通級
In Main Street and Empire, Ryan Poll addresses this need, arguing that the small town, as evoked by the image of ��ain Street,��is not a relic of the past but rather a metaphorical screen upon which America's ��veryday��stories and subjects are projected on both a national and global scale.
Bringing together a broad selection of texts��rom Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Grace Metalious's Peyton Place, and Peter Weir's The Truman Show to the speeches of William McKinley, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, and Barack Obama��oll examines how the small town is used to imagine and reproduce the nation throughout the twentieth- and into the twenty-first century. He contends that the dominant small town, despite its innocent, nostalgic appearance, is central to the development of the U.S. empire and global capitalism.
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