I Hate It Here, Please Vote for Me
Essays on Rural Political Decay
Seiten
2024
West Virginia University Press (Verlag)
978-1-959000-27-3 (ISBN)
West Virginia University Press (Verlag)
978-1-959000-27-3 (ISBN)
When a progressive college professor runs for the House of Representatives in a deeply conservative rural district, he loses. The story of how Ferrence loses and, more importantly, how American political narratives refuse to recognize the existence and value of non-conservative rural Americans offers insight into the political morass of our nation.
When a progressive college professor runs for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in a deeply conservative rural district, he loses. That’s no surprise. But the story of how Ferrence loses and, more importantly, how American political narratives refuse to recognize the existence and value of non-conservative rural Americans offers insight into the political morass of our nation.
In essays focused on showing goats at the county fair, planting native grasses in the front lawn, the political power of poetry, and getting wiped out in an election, Ferrence offers a counter-narrative to stereotypes of monolithic rural American voters and emphasizes the way stories told about rural America are a source for the bitter divide between Red America and Blue America.
When a progressive college professor runs for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in a deeply conservative rural district, he loses. That’s no surprise. But the story of how Ferrence loses and, more importantly, how American political narratives refuse to recognize the existence and value of non-conservative rural Americans offers insight into the political morass of our nation.
In essays focused on showing goats at the county fair, planting native grasses in the front lawn, the political power of poetry, and getting wiped out in an election, Ferrence offers a counter-narrative to stereotypes of monolithic rural American voters and emphasizes the way stories told about rural America are a source for the bitter divide between Red America and Blue America.
Matthew Ferrence lives and writes at the confluence of Appalachia and the Rust Belt. With I Hate It Here, Please Vote For Me, he has completed a trilogy (of sorts) focused on rural Appalachian identity and political narrative. He teaches creative writing at Allegheny College.
Acknowledgements
1. Welcome to the Party
2. I Hate It Here, Please Vote for Me
3. The Poetics of Politics
4. Migrations
5. The Political Grammar of the County Fair
6. Spiritual Dangers
7. Violence
8. Crown Vetch
9. This Is Why We Lose
10. Succession
11. Imagination
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.08.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | n-a |
| Verlagsort | Morganstown |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-959000-27-6 / 1959000276 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-959000-27-3 / 9781959000273 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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