Bombs From Coke Cans: Appropriating Mass Culture in Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country

doCarmo examines one work of fiction, Bobbie Ann Mason's "In Country," which vividly depicts consumer appropriations. Pop music's consciousness-raising abilities are celebrated throughout "In Country," and the novel finds similar potential in TV. Mason's "hijacking" of television's resilient and ahistorical aesthetic is persuasive final proof of mass culture's susceptibility to those who have more than entertainment and diversion on their minds.