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Michigan Salvage is the first scholarly collection on celebrated writer Bonnie Jo Campbell, the author of two novels and three short story collections, including National Book Award finalist American Salvage (2009). Her writing captures a diverse and bustling rural America, brimming with complex characters who struggle with addiction, poverty, and land degradation—issues that have become, undeniably, part of the southwestern Michigan landscape that she calls home. The essays in this volume demonstrate many rich ways to approach Campbell's writing, from historical and cultural overviews to essays examining the class and gender implications of her stories and novels, to teaching essays highlighting how to use her work in the classroom and beyond. Along with each essay, Michigan Salvage also features lesson plans and writing prompts meant to spark discussion and encourage further investigation into these stories and novels. This essential and teachable collection makes plain Campbell's contributions to contemporary American literature.
Contents
Contents Acknowledgments Books by Bonnie Jo Campbell Introduction Part 1. Critical Essays Carp, Mud, Poison, and Stench; or, Once Upon the Kalamazoo River | Jeffrey Insko Indigeneity in Once Upon a River | Heather A. Howard-Bobiwash The Radical Class Politics of American Salvage | Charles Cunningham The Cultural Critique of American Patriarchal Capitalism in American Salvage | Alejandra Ortega Power Tool Mishaps: Women and Alcohol in "Playhouse" | Ellen Lansky Bonnie Jo Campbell's Millennium and the Infrastructure of Failure | Garth Sabo Mothers, Daughters, and Rape Culture in Mothers, Tell Your Daughters | Laura Fine Up the Road, Down the River: The Novels of Bonnie Jo Campbell Side by Side | Monica Friedman Part 2. Teaching Essays Kalamazoo County: Nurturing a Community of Readers | Marsha Meyer Entering the Current: Connecting High School Readers with Once Upon a River | Becky Cooper Fiction Friction: Teaching Chronic and Acute Conflict in Bonnie Jo Campbell's Short Fiction | RS Deeren The Expatriate Midwesterner: Teaching Bonnie Jo Campbell to Second Language Writing Students | Doug Sheldon American Weirdos on Parade: Reader-Response Journals and "The Smallest Man in the World" | Jenny Robertson Appendix. Teaching Activities Contributors
