Main street and empire : the fictional small town in the age of globalization / Ryan Poll.
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2012.
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the small town as a modern nation form
- Sacred islands in modernity: the prehistory of the dominant small town
- An unfinished revolution: "the revolt from the village" reconsidered
- Mapping the modern small town: a circular imaginary
- A new machine in the small-town garden: periodizing an automodernity
- The formation of a U.S. fascist aesthetics; or, welcome to main street
- Staging and archiving the nation: pedagogical theater, Thornton Wilder's Our town, and U.S. imperialism
- "One happy world": the postmodern small town and the small-town postmodern
- Global belonging: the small town as the world's home
- Afterword: the global village.