A companion to the regional literatures of America /
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| Imprint: | Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003. |
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| Description: | xvi, 606 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 21 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4904149 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I. History and Theory of Regionalism in the United States
- 1. Contemporary Regionalism
- 2. The Cultural Work of American Regionalism
- 3. Letting Go our Grand Obsessions: Notes toward a New Literary History of the American Frontiers
- 4. Region and Race: National Identity and the Southern Past
- 5. Regionalism in the Era of the New Deal
- 6. Realism and Regionalism
- 7. Taking Feminism and Regionalism toward the Third Wave
- 8. Regionalism and Ecology
- 9. The City as Region
- 10. Indigenous People and Place
- 11. Borders, Bodies, and Regions: The United States and the Caribbean
- Part II. Mapping Regions
- 12. New England Literature and Regional Identity
- 13. The Great Plains
- 14. Forgotten Frontier: Literature of the Old Northwest
- 15. The Old Southwest: Humor, Tall Tales, and the Grotesque
- 16. The Plantation School: Dissenters and Countermyths
- 17. The Fugitive-Agrarians and Twentieth-Century Southern Canon
- 18. Romanticising a Different Lost Cause: Regional Identities in Louisiana and the Bayou Country
- 19. The Sagebrush School Revived
- 20. Re-envisioning the Big Sky: Regional Identity, Spatial Logics and the Literature of Montana
- 21. Regions of California: Mountains and Deserts
- 22. Regions of California: The Great Central Valley
- 23. Los Angeles as a Literary Region
- 24. North and Northwest: Theorizing the Regional Literatures of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest
- 25. Texas and the Great Southwest
- 26. Hawai'I
- Part III. Some Regionalist Masters
- 27. Bret Garte and the Literary Construction of the American West
- 28. Mark Twain: A Man for all Regions
- 29. Willa Cather's Glittering Regions
- 30. "I Have seen America Emerging": Mary Austin's Regionalism
- 31. "I have never recovered from the country": The American West of Wallace Stegner
- Index
