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Main Street and Empire : The Fictional Small Town in the Age of Globalization /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
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.