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What connections can be drawn between oral history and the shopping mall? Gospel music and the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant? William Carlos Williamss Patterson and the Manhattan Projects secret cities? The answers lie in this insightful collection of essays that read and illuminate the American landscape. Through literature and folklore, music and oral history, autobiography, architecture, and photography, eleven leading writers and thinkers explore the dialectic between space and place in modern American life. The result is an eloquent and provocative reminder of the environmental context of eventsthe deceptively simple fact that events take place.
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Mapping American Culture American Land and Life Series
author
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Franklin, Wayne.; Steiner, Michael
publisher
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University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin
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087745518X
print isbn13
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9780877455189
ebook isbn13
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9781587290749
language
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English
subject
Human geography--United States, United States--Civilization.
publication date
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1992
lcc
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E169.1.M257 1992eb
ddc
:
973
subject
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Human geography--United States, United States--Civilization.
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Mapping American Culture
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The American Land & Life Series
EDITED BY WAYNE FRANKLIN
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Mapping American Culture
Edited by Wayne Franklin and Michael Steiner
University of Iowa Press Iowa City
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1992 by the University of Iowa Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
Design by Richard Hendel
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mapping American culture /edited by Wayne Franklin and Michael Steiner. p. cm.(American land and life series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87745-379-9, ISBN 0-87745-518-X 1. United StatesCivilization. 2. Human geographyUnited States. I.Franklin, Wayne. II.Steiner, Michael (Michael C.). III.Series. E169.1.M257 1992 92-10421 973dc20 CIP
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction
Taking Place: Toward the Regrounding of American Studies
Wayne Franklin and Michael Steiner
3
Place and Culture: A Theoretical Perspective
Place and Culture: Analeptic for Individuality and the World's Indifference
Yi-Fu Tuan
27
Cultures: Migration, Place, and Placelessness in America
Place-on-the-Move: Space and Place for the Migrant
Clarence Mondale
53
"To Lose the Unspeakable": Folklore and Landscape in O. E. Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth
April Schultz
89
Back Home: Southern Identity and African-American Gospel Quartet Performance
Ray Allen
112
Texts: Language and the Making of American Place
Thoreau's Journal: The Creation of a Sacred Place
Don Scheese
139
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Possessing America: William Carlos Williams's Paterson and the Poetics of Appropriation
Kinereth Meyer
152
"Roots, Aren't They Supposed to Be Buried?": The Experience of Place in Midwestern Women's Autobiographies
Kathleen R. Wallace
168
Topographies: The Built Environment and Modern American Culture
Beyond the Sacred and the Profane: Cultural Landscape Photography in America, 19301990
Timothy Davis
191
The Formal Garden in the Age of Consumer Culture: A Reading of the Twentieth-Century Shopping Mall
Richard Keller Simon
231
Topographies of Power: The Forced Spaces of the Manhattan Project
Peter Bacon Hales
251
Priesthoods and Power: Some Thoughts on Diablo Canyon
Steven Marx
291
Notes on Contributors
303
Index
305
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Many people and places have shaped this book. The California American Studies Association deserves special thanks for vigorously supporting a conference at San Luis Obispo on "Place in American Culture" in May 1990. George Cotkin, Wayne Hobson, Sheila McCoy, and Damaris Palmer helped guide the conference to completion; David Scofield Wilson, Sarah Emily Newton, Michael Cowan, and many other CASA members provided intellectual encouragement and practical advice for the meeting and this book that has grown out of it.
We also are very grateful to those participants at the meeting whose revised and expanded papers were submitted for possible inclusion in the book. Making the choices we made proved difficult, which was both gratifying and distressing. It would have been easy, had funds allowed, to make the volume twice the size it is or to publish a sequel containing the other excellent essays we were fortunate to be able to consider.
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