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Sum of the parts : the mathematics and politics of region, place, and writing /
Proponents of the new regional history understand that regional identities are constructed and contested, multifarious and not monolithic, that they involve questions of dominance and power, and that their nature is inherently political. In this lively new book, writing in the spirit of these unders...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | American land and life series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Proponents of the new regional history understand that regional identities are constructed and contested, multifarious and not monolithic, that they involve questions of dominance and power, and that their nature is inherently political. In this lively new book, writing in the spirit of these understandings, Kent Ryden engagingly examines works of American regional writing to show us how literary partisans of place create and recreate, attack and defend, argue over and dramatize the meaning and identity of their regions in the pages of their books.℗¡Cleverly drawing upon mathematical models tha. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 164 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781587299889 1587299887 |