Critical Regionalism Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape

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.Reichert Powell, Douglas is the author of 'Critical Regionalism Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape', published 2007 under ISBN 9780807857946 and ISBN 0807857947.