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1 online resource (69 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Contents |
Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; There are Pictures of Dennis Weaver at my Favorite Ice Cream Shop; I am Easily Rattled; Everything is a Rerun. or a Variety; I Cut My Knee on a Mousetrap; We all go to Branson; I Learn my Rhetoric From Hee Haw, Despite Myself; Hoyt Axton is From Oklahoma, and so is Roger Miller; Pearl Pearl Pearl, Don't give your Love to Earl; Chester Treats his Thick Blood with Sarsaparilla Tea; I am Born; Sometimes we Take Walks; Lad, a Dog; Sometimes I Dangle by my Arm; The Problem with the Look Up |
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Every Town has its Ups and Downs, Sometimes Ups Outnumber the Downs. (but not in Nottingham.)I Enjoy a Dislocation; I Pretend to Sleep on a Mat; I Will not Eat a Squirrel; Folks Tend to Kill Themselves; I Dream of Jerry Reed; Dislocation/Relocation; The World of the Lake; The Story of the Stroke; The Topography of a Tree; A Grotesque but Sentient Creature; Onward, to Trembling Mountain; I Sit Alone by the Poolside; The Rooster Strolleth; Why am I Being so Dramatic?; Things Change a Lot; What Else Changes; As I Lay Catatonic; The Rooster's Lament; Acknowledgements; About the Author |
| Summary |
"Rerun Era is a captivating, propulsive memoir about growing up in the environmentally and economically devastated rural flatlands of Oklahoma, the entwinement of personal memory and the memory of popular culture, and a family thrown into trial by lost love and illness that found common ground in the television. Told from the magnetic perspective of Joanna Howard's past selves from the late '70s and early '80s, Rerun Era circles the fascinating psyches of her part-Cherokee teamster truck-driving father, her women's libber mother, and her skateboarder, rodeo bull-riding teenage brother. Illuminating to our rural American present, and the way popular culture portrays the rural American past, Rerun Era perfectly captures the irony of growing up in rural America in the midst of nationalistic fantasies of small town local sheriffs and saloon girls, which manifested the urban cowboy, wild west theme-parks, and The Beverly Hillbillies"-- Publisher's description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Howard, Joanna, 1975-
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Howard, Joanna, 1975- -- Family.
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Women authors, American -- Biography.
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Women authors, American -- Biography. |
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Country life -- Oklahoma.
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Country life. |
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Oklahoma. |
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Coming of age -- Oklahoma.
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Coming of age. |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Howard, Joanna. Rerun Era. Ashland : McSweeney's Publishing, ©2019 9781944211677 |
| ISBN |
9781944211936 (electronic book) |
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1944211934 (electronic book) |
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