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Mapping American Culture

By Wayne Franklin , Michael Steiner

Book information

Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Year
1995
ISBN
087745518X, 9780877455189
Google Books ID
gaYJ9t5gKW8C
Open Library ID
OL8111774M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1587053 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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 Patterson 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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