It is the "heartland," the home of the average--middle--American.
Yet the definition of the Middle West, that most amorphous of
regions, is elusive and changing. In historical, cultural,
political, literary, and artistic terms the region is variously
drawn. It is alternately praised as a pastoral oasis and damned as
a cultural backwater, fostering wholesome pragmatism and crass
materialism, home to people at once resilient and embittered,
hardworking and complacent. From Willa Cather to Sherwood Anderson,
from "The Wizard of Oz" to "The Music Man," images of the Middle
West are powerful and contradictory.
In this thoughtful book, cultural geographer James R. Shortridge
offers a historical probe into the "idea" of the Middle West. By
exploring what this term originally meant and how it has changed
over the past 150 years, he presents a fascinating look at the
question of regional identity and its place in the collective
consciousness. A work of unconventional geography based on
extensive research in popular literature, this volume examines
meaning, essence, character--the important intangibles of place not
captured by statistical studies--and explores the intimate
connections between the notion of pastoralism and the definition of
the Middle West.
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