It’s the small gestures – a white lie, the turning of a blind eye, a small kindness or a secret kept – that allow the characters of these communities to survive, to breathe easily within the seemingly tight strictures life there can impose. to these OECD countries, we find that American poverty is both more prevalent and more extreme. In the town of Odda in Norway, a middle-aged Morrissey fan has a matter of hours to find a girlfriend so his ailing mother can die in peace. Americas Poor Are Worse Off Than Elsewhere. But if American mores have prevented Hasselhoff from succeeding at home, it has also helped. In Germany, a house-husband is slowly sent over the edge by his over-achieving neighbours. Americans have largely treated his singing career as a joke. The stories collected here are neither narrow-minded nor petty, nor do the minds of their protagonists contract to fit their environment. He is author of The American Elsewhere: Adventure and Manliness in the Age of Expansion (2017) editor of and contributor to Inventing Destiny: Cultural Explorations of US Expansion (2019) editor of and contributor to The Martial Imagination: Cultural. He received PhD (2006) from Southern Methodist University. On a broad European canvas, however, the rich traditions of short story writing challenge these preconceptions. is professor of history at Lamar University, Beaumont, TX. As volunteers, trappers, traders, or curiosity seekers, they stepped into elsewheres. Pressed to describe what the phrase ‘small town’ conjures up, we’d be hard pushed to say anything positive: closed-minded petty provincial parochial. A study of US expansionism from 18151848, The American Elsewhere delves into the adventurelogues of the era to reveal the emotional world of men who sought escape from the anonymity of the urban East and pressures of the Market Revolution. How has this innocuous term – one up from ‘village’, a couple down from ‘city’ – come to function as a pejorative? reviews Deliciously Weird: American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett Stefan Raets Wed 3:00pm 5 comments 2 Favorites + Mona Bright used to be a cop. Bryan is a phrase maker: The American Elsewhere abounds in aperus that evince his grasp of his disparate material and give his history purchase on the reader’s imagination. FEATURING NOBEL PRIZE WINNER OLGA TOKARCZUK'S FIRST WORK IN ENGLISH Washington Irving’s stories of the American fur trade are strongly featured novels and, to a lesser extent, poetry are also discussed.
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