Letters from the Country
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780816633227 (0816633223)
Publish date: April 1st 1999
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Pages no: 204
Edition language: English
Bly calls the bluff on many of Minnesota’s most cherished myths, particularly “Minnesota Nice.” She considers the Minnesotan tendency to avoid controversy and conflict a stultifying tendency, inimical to true civic life. She proposes intentionally conflict-laden events, where people with real, deep ...