The Meanings of Kansas: Rhetoric, Regions, and Counter Regions

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2012-06Author
Tell, Dave
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Taylor and Francis
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
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This essay uses the Kansas reception of Truman Capote's 1966 In Cold Blood to reflect on processes of regionalism and resistance. Noting that Capote and In Cold Blood were articulated quite differently in different portions of the state of Kansas, I explain how Kansans used a text that was imposed on them to craft for themselves regional identities of their own making. I call these “counter regions,” a term I coin to emphasize that region making is an important, if often overlooked, ingredient in practices of cultural resistance.
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This is a preprint of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in the RHETORIC QUARTERLY © 2012 Taylor & Francis; RHETORIC QUARTERLY is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rrsq20.
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Tell Dave. “The Meanings of Kansas: Rhetoric, Regions, and Counter Regions.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 42.5 (2012):214-232. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2012.682843
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