Main street and empire : the fictional small town in the age of globalization /
In Main Street and Empire, Ryan Poll argues that the small town, as evoked by the image of "Main Street," is not a relic of the past but rather a metaphorical screen upon which the nation's "everyday" stories and subjects are projected on both a national and global level. It...
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
2012
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| Series: | American literatures initiative
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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.
