A companion to the regional literatures of America

著者

• Crow, Charles L.

書誌事項

A companion to the regional literatures of America

edited by Charles L. Crow

（Blackwell companions to literature and culture, 21）

Blackwell, 2003

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

List of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xiv Introduction 1 PART I History and Theory of Regionalism in the United States 5 1 Contemporary Regionalism 7 Michael Kowalewski 2 The Cultural Work of American Regionalism 25 Stephanie Foote 3 Letting Go our Grand Obsessions: Notes toward a New Literary History of the American Frontiers 42 Annette Kolodny 4 Region and Race: National Identity and the Southern Past 57 Lori Robison 5 Regionalism in the Era of the New Deal 74 Lauren Coats and Nihad M. Farooq 6 Realism and Regionalism 92 Donna Campbell 7 Taking Feminism and Regionalism toward the Third Wave 111 Krista Comer 8 Regionalism and Ecology 129 David Mazel 9 The City as Region 137 James Kyung-Jin Lee 10 Indigenous Peoples and Place 154 P. Jane Hafen 11 Borders, Bodies, and Regions: The United States and the Caribbean 171 Vera M. Kutzinski PART II Mapping Regions 193 12 New England Literature and Regional Identity 195 Kent C. Ryden 13 The Great Plains 213 Diane D. Quantic 14 Forgotten Frontier: Literature of the Old Northwest 231 Bev Hogue 15 The Old Southwest: Humor, Tall Tales, and the Grotesque 247 Rosemary D. Cox 16 The Plantation School: Dissenters and Countermyths 266 Sarah E. Gardner 17 The Fugitive-Agrarians and the Twentieth-Century Southern Canon 286 Farrell O'Gorman 18 Romanticizing a Different Lost Cause: Regional Identities in Louisiana and the Bayou Country 306 Suzanne Disheroon-Green 19 The Sagebrush School Revived 324 Lawrence I. Berkove 20 Re-envisioning the Big Sky: Regional Identity, Spatial Logics, and the Literature of Montana 344 Susan Kollin 21 Regions of California: Mountains and Deserts 363 Nicolas Witschi 22 Regions of California: The Great Central Valley 379 Charles L. Crow 23 Los Angeles as a Literary Region 397 David Fine 24 North and Northwest: Theorizing the Regional Literatures of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest 412 Susan Kollin 25 Texas and the Great Southwest 432 Mark Busby 26 Hawai'i 458 Brenda Kwon PART III Some Regionalist Masters 477 27 Bret Harte and the Literary Construction of the American West 479 Gary Scharnhorst 28 Mark Twain: A Man for All Regions 496 Lawrence I. Berkove 29 Willa Cather's Glittering Regions 513 Robert Thacker 30 "I have seen America emerging": Mary Austin's Regionalism 532 Betsy Klimasmith 31 "I have never recovered from the country": The American West of Wallace Stegner 551 Richard H. Cracroft Index 572

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA62532217
• ISBN:
  • 0631226311
• LCCN: 2002038288
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Malden, Mass.
• ページ数/冊数: xvi, 606 p.
• 大きさ: 26 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PS169.R45
  • DC21 : 810.9
• 件名:
  • LCSH : American literature -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • LCSH : Regionalism in literature -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA33407255