Mapping American Culture

by Wayne Franklin and Michael Steiner

Book Overview

What connections can be drawn between oral history and the shopping mall? Gospel music and the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant? William Carlos Williams's "Patterson" and the Manhattan Project's 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877453799
• ISBN13: 9780877453796
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 310 Pages