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"The United States was born in the country", Richard Hofstadter once wrote, "and remained emotionally attached to it long after it had moved away", David B. Danbom added in his 'History of Rural America'. Thus it may be argued that the study of American culture and civilization, first and foremost, needs to make sense of the rural. This multidisciplinary volume focuses on rural America, on areas seemingly apart from the political, economic, and cultural centers of the nation. Despite this apparent marginality, the rural often proves to be constitutive not only of regional but also of other sub TABLE OF CONTENTS; ANTJE KLEY AND HEIKE PAUL, Rural America: An Introduction; DAVID B. DANBOM, Americanism Distilled: The Place of the Countryside in American Thought; PHILIPP LÖFFLER, Thoreau's Economy: Walden, Homestead Politics, and the Use of the Land in 19th Century American Culture; BRIGITTE GEORGI-FINDLAY, Origin Stories: Rurality and Nation-Building in the Western; MONIKA SAUTER, Fire from the Heartland: Women's Activism from Phyllis Schlafly to Michele Bachmann; KERSTIN KNOPF, A Benighted America?: Slavery, Convict Labor, and Chain Gangs in American Prison Literature CARMEN DEXL, Revisiting Spectacle Lynching and Reconfiguring the U.S. South: Economy and Racial Violence in James W. Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912)JENS TEMMEN, Overriding/Overwriting the Reservation: John Rollin Ridge's The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit; JERRY HAGSTROM, Coming Out of the Shadows: Minorities in Rural America; KATRIN THOMSON, The Power of the Rural Land in Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer (1998): Developing Film Literacy in the EFL Classroom MARK BÜCHSEL, "He Was Never Dwarfed by the Landscape": Jane Smiley's Critique of the Jeffersonian Self-Sufficiency Myth in A Thousand AcresJOCHEN ACHILLES, Real Machines in Imaginary Gardens: Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden and Environmental Liminality in Flannery O'Connor's "A View of the Woods; INGRID GESSNER, "A Country Life and Estate I Like Best for My Children": Spatial Dialectics and the Contagiousness of Fear; ROGELIO SAENZ, Latinos and the Changing Face of Rural America; ARIANE SCHRÖDER, "Consumption's Vampire Grasp": Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Folk Healing in Rural New England BARBARA CHING, Murder Ballads and Hunger Games: Re-Collecting Rural AmericaCHRISTIAN SCHMIDT, Nashville: The Authentic Heart and Soul of Country Music; NADJA GERNALZICK, Alt-Dot-ANY-Country Music; FRANK MEHRING, Down in the Valley: German Remediations of Rural America in the Musical Theater of Kurt Weill; FLORIAN GROSS, Creative Cities and Country Cool: New York City's High Line as a Middle Landscape between Rural and Urban America; SINA A. NITZSCHE, The Rural Jostling the Urban: Photographing Spuyten Duyvil in Berenice Abbott's Changing New York KLARA STEPHANIE SZLEZÁK, Following the Cheese Trail: Vermont as a 'Brand' in Contemporary Food and Tourism IndustriesArtists' Perspectives: Words and Images; STEWART O' NAN, Introduction by Heike Paul; Calling; ANDREAS HORVATH, Introduction by Karin Höpker; Heartlands
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