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In Hard Luck and Heavy Rain Joseph C. Russo takes readers into the
everyday lives of the rural residents of Southeast Texas. He
encounters the region as a kind of world enveloped in on itself,
existing under a pall of poverty, illness, and oil refinery smoke.
His informants' stories cover a wide swath of experiences, from
histories of LGBTQ+ life and the local petrochemical industries to
religiosity among health food store employees and the suffering of
cancer patients living in the Refinery Belt. Russo frames their
hard-luck stories as forms of verbal art and poetic narrative that
render the region a mythopoetic landscape that epitomizes the
impasse of American late capitalism. He shows that in this severe
world, questions of politics and history are not cut and dry, and
its denizens are not simply backward victims of circumstances.
Russo demonstrates that by challenging classist stereotypes of
rural Americans as passive, ignorant, and uneducated, his
interlocutors offer significant insight into the contemporary
United States.
In Hard Luck and Heavy Rain Joseph C. Russo takes readers into the
everyday lives of the rural residents of Southeast Texas. He
encounters the region as a kind of world enveloped in on itself,
existing under a pall of poverty, illness, and oil refinery smoke.
His informants' stories cover a wide swath of experiences, from
histories of LGBTQ+ life and the local petrochemical industries to
religiosity among health food store employees and the suffering of
cancer patients living in the Refinery Belt. Russo frames their
hard-luck stories as forms of verbal art and poetic narrative that
render the region a mythopoetic landscape that epitomizes the
impasse of American late capitalism. He shows that in this severe
world, questions of politics and history are not cut and dry, and
its denizens are not simply backward victims of circumstances.
Russo demonstrates that by challenging classist stereotypes of
rural Americans as passive, ignorant, and uneducated, his
interlocutors offer significant insight into the contemporary
United States.
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