Collectivity of Life - Spaces of Social Mobility and the Individualism Myth

Informationen zum Autor By Joel Wendland Klappentext This book reads twentieth-century autobiography and oral histories spatially to unearth how writers and activists understood social mobility as a collective process. In so doing, they constructed a counter-mythology to the American dream myth of individualism. Zusammenfassung This book reads twentieth-century autobiography and oral histories spatially to unearth how writers and activists understood social mobility as a collective process. In so doing! they constructed a counter-mythology to the American dream myth of individualism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1: Theory: Space, Signs, and Bodies Chapter 2: Myth-busting: Writing Collective Identities in Space Chapter 3: Cultural Literacy, Resources, and Social Spaces Chapter 4: Space and the Overdetermination of "Choice" Chapter 5: Oral Narratives and Constructing Spatial Selves Conclusion: Cathedrals, Prisons, and Revolution Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Joel Wendland, Wendland Joel
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2016
• EAN: 9781498513951
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1395-1
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Social Mobility, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000