Description The American Midwest does not feature prominently in studies of modernism.
Modernism is cosmopolitan and avant-garde, the story goes, whereas the Midwest is .
The essays in this ground-breaking collection tell a different story, arguing for a more nuanced understanding of both modernism and the Midwest.
The Midwest, it turns out, has a radical streak.
Hastings College Press A scattering time: how modernism met midwestern culture, paperback/sara kosiba
