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Title A companion to the regional literatures of America / edited by Charles L. Crow.

Imprint Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  810.9 C738 2003    ---  Available
Description xvi, 606 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Series Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 21
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. History and theory of regionalism in the United States. Contemporary regionalism / Michael Kowalewski -- Cultural work of American regionalism / Stephanie Foote -- Letting go our grand obsessions : notes toward a new literary history of the American frontiers / Annette Kolodny -- Region and race : national identity and the Southern past / Lori Robison -- Regionalism in the era of the New Deal / Lauren Coats and Nihad M. Farooq -- Realism and regionalism / Donna Campbell -- Taking feminism and regionalism toward the third wave / Krista Comer -- Regionalism and ecology / David Mazel -- City as region / James Kyung-Jin Lee -- Indigenous peoples and place / P. Jane Hafen -- Borders, bodies, and regions : the United States and the Caribbean / Vera M. Kutzinski -- pt. 2. Mapping regions. New England literature and regional identity / Kent C. Ryden -- Great Plains / Diane D. Quantic -- Forgotten frontier : literature of the Old Northwest / Bev Hogue -- Old Southwest : humor, tall tales, and the grotesque / Rosemary D. Cox -- Plantation school : dissenters and countermyths / Sarah E. Gardner -- Fugitive-agrarians and the twentieth-century Southern canon / Farrell O' Gorman.
Romanticizing a different lost cause : regional identities in Louisiana and the bayou country / Suzanne Disheroon-Green -- Sagebrush School revived / Lawrence I. Berkove -- Re-envisioning the big sky : regional identity, spatial logics, and the literature of Montana / Susan Kollin -- Regions of California : mountains and deserts / Nicolas Witschi -- Regions of California : the Great Central Valley / Charles L. Crow -- Los Angeles as a literary region / David Fine -- North and Northwest : theorizing the regional literatures of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest / Susan Kollin -- Texas and the great Southwest / Mark Busby -- Hawai'i / Brenda Kwon -- pt. 3. Some regionalist masters. Bret Harte and the literary construction of the American West / Gary Scharnhorst -- Mark Twain : a man for all regions / Lawrence I. Berkove -- Willa Cather's glittering regions / Robert Thacker -- "I have seen America emerging" : Mary Austin's regionalism / Betsy Klimasmith -- "I have never recovered from the country" : the American West of Wallace Stegner / Richard H. Cracroft.
Subject American literature -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Regionalism in literature -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Added Author Crow, Charles L.
ISBN 0631226311 (alk. paper)
9780631226314 (alk. paper)
Standard No. NLGGC 254946445
YDXCP 1932937

 
    
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