Old-Fashioned Modernism

The Midwest holds two conflicting positions in the American cultural imagination, both of which rob the region of its distinctiveness. Andy Oler challenges both views by pairing fiction and poetry with cultural and material texts that illustrate the processes by which regional modernism both opposes and absorbs prevailing models of manhood.

Midwestul detine doua pozitii contradictorii in imaginatia culturala americana, ambele rapind caracterul distinctiv al regiunii. Andy Oler provoaca ambele puncte de vedere prin asocierea fictiunii si poeziei cu texte culturale si materiale care ilustreaza procesele prin care modernismul regional se opune si absoarbe modelele predominante de barbatie.