Down in the Dumps

Place, Modernity, American Depression

Bibliographic Data

ID19909943
AuthorsJani Scandura (English and Foreign Languages University, corresponding author)
Year2007
Pages344
Publication date2007-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueDown in the Dumps (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9780822390336
OpenAlexW2228008594
Open LibraryOL29604862M
ISBN9780822390336
LanguageEN
Citations received12

Mucking around in the messy terrain of American trash, Jani Scandura tells the story of the United States during the Great Depression through evocative and photo-rich portraits of four locales: Reno, Key West, Harlem, and Hollywood. In investigating these Depression-era "dumps," places that she claims contained and reclaimed the cultural, ideological, and material refuse of modern America, Scandura introduces the concept of "depressive modernity," an enduring affective component of American culture that exposes itself at those moments when the foundational myths of America and progressive modernity-capitalism, democracy, individualism, secularism, utopian aspiration-are thrown into question. Depressive modernity is modernity at a standstill

Aesthetics · Americanization · Art · Art history · Geography · Hollywood · Ideology · Modernity · New Deal · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Educational Leadership and Practices · Environmental Science · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Race, History, and American Society · 1918-1945 · 1929 · 1945 · 20th century · American National characteristics · civilization · Depression, mental · Depressions · Florida · Key West · Memory · Mental Depression · National characteristics, american · Reno (nev.) · Social aspects of Memory · Social aspects of Mental depression · Sources · united states

Tools

Open DOILibgen