Mapping American Culture

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".

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Wayne Franklin (Editore), Michael Steiner (Editore)
• Editore: University Of Iowa Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.10.1995
• EAN: 9780877455189
• ISBN: 978-0-87745-518-9
• Pagine: 318
• Dimensioni: 156 mm x 235 mm x 21 mm
• Peso: 540 g
• Serie: American Land and Life; American Land & Life Series; American Land & Life Series; American Land & Life
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche