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Dec 27, 2018 · WHAT IS “Midwestern nice”? It is apologising involuntarily when scooting past someone, both to warn of your presence and to express regret for any inconvenience your mere existence may have...
Apr 23, 2019 · As it enshrines the rural Midwest as the symbolic core of the nation, the heartland myth insists that there is a national core; that insiders can be separated from outsiders; us from them. Those...
There is no single mythology of the Indigenous North American peoples, but numerous different canons of traditional narratives associated with religion, ethics and beliefs. Such stories are deeply based in Nature and are rich with the symbolism of seasons, weather, plants, animals, earth, water, fire, sky, and the heavenly bodies.
Mar 2, 2017 · What does it mean to be midwestern? Belt Publishing releases two new books that examine the language of the middle of the country. by Daniel Kay Hertz March 2, 2017. Credit: Arthur Rothstein /...
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Mar 7, 2019 · First, the political allegiances of this supposed voting bloc can shift from one election to the next. Second, what Midwestern people consist of—farmers of the heartland or industrial workers, rural or urban dwellers, whites or Midwesterners of all races—is different in each account.
Sep 19, 2014 · From tiny towns necklacing the Great Lakes to towering old cities, they dig into the Midwestern landscape in their writing.
Jul 1, 2019 · Marshall’s makeshift museum implicitly critiques the American Dream and Midwestern mythos like the Heartland myth through its creation of an alternate, revisionary history that begins to account for the region’s uncanny, grotesque, abject, and estranged encounters.
