cultural studies in the
heartland
of
America
cultural studies in the
heartland
of
America
67 Clay Street, The Art of Gwen Frostic
67 Clay Street...
Researching handwritten personal correspondence provides insights into American culture, creates historical paradigms and has the capacity to enlighten us about how individuals can open significant gateways to bygone eras of American history.
Collections of letters acquired on auctions provide the corpora for these empirical studies.
Reconstructing the lives of individual letter-writers requires sophisticated scientific research methodology. From the perspective of translation studies research, their letters represent refined and scholarly research material supporting the study of translation in its cultural context.
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