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9780470999073

A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470999073

  • ISBN10:

    0470999071

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2008-04-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

The Blackwell Companion to American Regional Literature is the most comprehensive resource yet published for study of this popular field. The most inclusive survey yet published of American regional literature. Represents a wide variety of theoretical and historical approaches. Surveys the literature of specific regions from California to New England and from Alaska to Hawaii. Discusses authors and groups who have been important in defining regional American literature.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
History and Theory of Regionalism in the United States:
Contemporary Regionalism
The Cultural Work of American Regionalism
Letting Go our Grand Obsessions: Notes toward a New Literary History of the American Frontiers
Region and Race: National Identity and the Southern Past
Regionalism in the Era of the New Deal
Realism and Regionalism
Taking Feminism and Regionalism toward the Third Wave
Regionalism and Ecology
The City as Region
Indigenous People and Place
Borders, Bodies, and Regions: The United States and the Caribbean
Mapping Regions:
New England Literature and Regional Identity
The Great Plains
Forgotten Frontier: Literature of the Old Northwest
The Old Southwest: Humor, Tall Tales, and the Grotesque
The Plantation School: Dissenters and Countermyths
The Fugitive-Agrarians and Twentieth-Century Southern Canon
Romanticising a Different Lost Cause: Regional Identities in Louisiana and the Bayou Country
The Sagebrush School Revived
Re-envisioning the Big Sky: Regional Identity, Spatial Logics and the Literature of Montana
Regions of California: Mountains and Deserts
Regions of California: The Great Central Valley
Los Angeles as a Literary Region
North and Northwest: Theorizing the Regional Literatures of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest
Texas and the Great Southwest
HawaiÆI
Some Regionalist Masters:
Bret Garte and the Literary Construction of the American West
Mark Twain: A Man for all Regions
Willa CatherÆs Glittering Regions
öI Have seen America Emergingö: Mary AustinÆs Regionalism
öI have never recovered from the countryö: The American West of Wallace Stegner
Index
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