Whole Machinery : The Rural Modern in Cultures of the U.S. South, 1890-1946

Language: English

Published by University Of Georgia Press, 2024

0820367087 / 9780820367088

Series: Book 16 of 17 - The New Southern Studies Ser.

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - A familiar story holds that modernization radiates outward from metropolitan origins. Expanding on Walter Benjamin's notion of die Moderne, The Whole Machinery explores representations of people and places, objects and occasions, that reverse that trajectory, demonstrating how modernizing agents move in a contrary direction as well--from the country to the city. In a crucial reconsideration, these figures aren't pulled by or into urban modernity so much as they bring alternate--and transformative--iterations of the modern to the urban world. Upending the U.S. South's reputation as either retrograde or unresponsive to modernity, Benjamin S. Child shows how the effects of national and transnational exchange, emergent technologies, and industrialization animate environments and bodies associated with, or performing, versions of the rural. To this end, he also exposes the shadow side of the cosmopolitan modern by investigating the rural sources--the laboring bodies and raw materials--that made such urban spaces possible, thus taking a broader survey of landscapes created by the Atlantic world's histories of uneven development. In this investigation of the rural modern that considers multiple media and forms of technology, Child's sources range widely, encompassing a spectrum of texts and their networks of transmission, reception, and signification. These include novels, poems, and short stories but also radio broadcasts, sound recordings, political pamphlets, photographs, magazine articles, newspaper reports, and agricultural bulletins. Folding such expressive artifacts into his larger arguments, Child considers how they both reflect and form modern(ist) culture. The result is a geography of southern modernism that includes an unexpected combination of landmarks, both actual and imagined: Twisted Oak, Arkansas, and Tukabahchee County, Alabama; Manhattan, Manchester, and Moscow; Tuskegee and Gobbler's Knob, North Carolina.…

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Title
Whole Machinery : The Rural Modern in Cultures of the U.S. South, 1890-1946
Author
Benjamin S. Child
Publisher
University Of Georgia Press
Publication year
2024
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Taschenbuch
Language
English
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0820367087
ISBN 13
9780820367088
Item weight
487 grams
Dimensions
229x152x18 mm
Series
Book 16 of 17: The New Southern Studies Ser.

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