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The small town has become a national icon that circulates widely in
literature, culture, and politics as an authentic American space
and community. Yet there are surprisingly few critical studies that
analyze the small town's centrality to the United States' identity
and imagination. In Main Street and Empire, Ryan Poll addresses
this need, arguing that the small town, as evoked by the image of
"Main Street," is not a relic of the past but rather a metaphorical
screen upon which America's "everyday" stories and subjects are
projected on both a national and global scale. Bringing together a
broad selection of texts-from Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Grace
Metalious's Peyton Place, and Peter Weir's The Truman Show to the
speeches of William McKinley, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, and
Barack Obama-Poll examines how the small town is used to imagine
and reproduce the nation throughout the twentieth and into the
twenty-first century. He contends that the dominant small town,
despite its innocent, nostalgic appearance, is central to the
development of the U.S. empire and global capitalism.
The reimagining of Aquaman in The New 52 transformed the character
from a joke to an important figure of ecological justice. In
Aquaman and the War against Oceans, Ryan Poll argues that in this
twenty-first-century iteration, Aquaman becomes an accessible
figure for charting environmental violences endemic to global
capitalism and for developing a progressive and popular ecological
imagination.
Poll contends that The New 52 Aquaman should be read as an allegory
that responds to the crises of the Anthropocene, in which the
oceans have become sites of warfare and mass death. The Aquaman
series, which works to bridge the terrestrial and watery worlds,
can be understood as a form of comics activism by its visualizing
and verbalizing how the oceans are beyond the projects of the
“human” and “humanism” and, simultaneously, are
all-too-human geographies that are inextricable from the violent
structures of capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. The New
52 Aquaman, Poll demonstrates, proves an important form of ocean
literacy in particular and ecological literacy more generally.
The small town has become a national icon that circulates widely in
literature, culture, and politics as an authentic American space
and community. Yet there are surprisingly few critical studies that
analyze the small town's centrality to the United States' identity
and imagination. In Main Street and Empire, Ryan Poll addresses
this need, arguing that the small town, as evoked by the image of
"Main Street," is not a relic of the past but rather a metaphorical
screen upon which America's "everyday" stories and subjects are
projected on both a national and global scale. Bringing together a
broad selection of texts-from Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Grace
Metalious's Peyton Place, and Peter Weir's The Truman Show to the
speeches of William McKinley, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, and
Barack Obama-Poll examines how the small town is used to imagine
and reproduce the nation throughout the twentieth and into the
twenty-first century. He contends that the dominant small town,
despite its innocent, nostalgic appearance, is central to the
development of the U.S. empire and global capitalism.
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