Main street and empire : the fictional small town in the age of globalization / Ryan Poll.

By:

Poll, Ryan

Material type: Text

TextNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2012Description: xii, 223 pages : ilustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780813552903 (pbk.)
9780813552897
9780813552941 (ebk.)

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DDC classification:

810.9355 POL 23 011573

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Table of contents

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	810.9355 POL 011573 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		011573

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-216) and index.

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.

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