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- Title
The American Nomad: Truths and Fictions.
- Authors
Jackson, Robert
- Abstract
The truth about place, in America anyway, is in the author's opinion best understood by people who are or were nomads at least some of the time. So there's the Indians, the Jews, the Mormons, traveling music groups and sports teams, migrant workers longing for home and fugitives fleeing it. Black people migrated North, so as to survive and maybe even let their dreams breathe. A lot of celebrated American nomads are just folks who make a habit of running from their problems. Often with illustrious bursts of futility and violence. Many Americans, including its greatest nomads, are shaped predominantly by region and not by city, country, race or religion. The most complete way to view the region is culturally, intuitively bringing city, country, race, religion, politics, history, and of course, every kind of art or aesthetic practice you can find, together.
- Subjects
UNITED States; NOMADS; PLACE (Philosophy); CULTURE; HISTORICAL sociology; ETHNIC groups
- Publication
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature & Environment, 2003, Vol 10, Issue 2, p175
- ISSN
1076-0962
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/isle/10.2.175