From the Back Cover
The idea of “region” in America has often served to isolate places from each other, observes Reichert Powell. He proposes using more nuanced strategies that identify distinctive aspects of particular geographically marginal communities without turning them into peculiar “hick towns.” He enacts a new methodology of critical regionalism in order to link local concerns and debates to larger patterns of history, politics, and culture. To illustrate his method, in each chapter of the book Reichert Powell juxtaposes widely known texts from American literature and film with texts from and about his own Appalachian hometown of Johnson City, Tennessee.
About the Author
Douglas Reichert Powell teaches writing, American literature, and cultural studies in the department of English at Columbia College Chicago.
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