Postnational United States Regional Hinterlands : Proulx's Ethnic Working-Class Communities in Accordion Crimes

Werden, Douglas

Essay analyzing Annie Proulx's novel, "Accordion Crimes," according to the ethnic groups, working-classes, and cultural identities its characters simultaneously challenge and represent. A mid-1990s United States commentary on assimilation, acculturation, race, and place-identity in which this article's author situates the novel. The symbol of the accordion across cultural and geographic lines, within and across certain immigrant communities in the United States, in environments that temper American myths of upward mobility, and within musical communities of diverse qualities.

Lexington Books

2009

en

Book

19th century - 20th century

United States

9780739123942

51-61

Lanham, Maryland