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The Poets' Jesus: Representations at the End of a Millennium (review)

The Poets' Jesus: Representations at the End of a Millennium (review) 06-reviews 6/4/03 11:05 AM Page 317 Reviews 317 conglomerates, Amato, Lucy Lippard (The Lure of the Local, 1997), and oth- ers are promoting interdisciplinary, well-crafted narratives grounded in the local. Their efforts intersect with the subfield of microhistory, which explores cultural change in miniature through the lives of nonelite people. What is different about Amato’s plea for a new local history is his unabashed rejection of all theoretical explanations and “the hegemonic characteristics of macro- regionalism,” as he terms it (187–88). Local historians should not just pro- duce case studies of the larger culture, he argues. While acknowledging wider influences, they must remain committed to preserving the memory, the details, the sensations, the stuff of a rural life swiftly passing away. The story about home and place must always remain at center stage. Amato’s eloquent proposal for an invigorated local history will inspire those scholars who have labored in the trenches of this most relevant of his- tories. Let’s hope they will follow his model, producing narratives as fasci- nating, as versatile, and as insightful as Amato has done in Rethinking Home. Janet Ore Peggy Rosenthal. The Poets’ Jesus: Representations at the End of the Millenni- um. New York: http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Biography University of Hawai'I Press

The Poets' Jesus: Representations at the End of a Millennium (review)

Loughlin, Gerard.
Biography , Volume 26 (2) – Jul 8, 2003
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06-reviews 6/4/03 11:05 AM Page 317 Reviews 317 conglomerates, Amato, Lucy Lippard (The Lure of the Local, 1997), and oth- ers are promoting interdisciplinary, well-crafted narratives grounded in the local. Their efforts intersect with the subfield of microhistory, which explores cultural change in miniature through the lives of nonelite people. What is different about Amato’s plea for a new local history is his unabashed rejection of all theoretical explanations and “the hegemonic characteristics of macro- regionalism,” as he terms it (187–88). Local historians should not just pro- duce case studies of the larger culture, he argues. While acknowledging wider influences, they must remain committed to preserving the memory, the details, the sensations, the stuff of a rural life swiftly passing away. The story about home and place must always remain at center stage. Amato’s eloquent proposal for an invigorated local history will inspire those scholars who have labored in the trenches of this most relevant of his- tories. Let’s hope they will follow his model, producing narratives as fasci- nating, as versatile, and as insightful as Amato has done in Rethinking Home. Janet Ore Peggy Rosenthal. The Poets’ Jesus: Representations at the End of the Millenni- um. New York:

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