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Informationen zum Autor Charles L. Crow is Emeritus Professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is co-editor of The Haunted Dusk: American Supernatural Fiction, 1820-1920 (1984) and The Occult in America: New Historical Perspectives (1983), and editor of American Gothic: An Anthology (Blackwell Publishing, 1999). He has been president of the Frank Norris Society, and a member of the executive council of the Western Literature Association. Klappentext A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America is the most comprehensive resource yet published for study of this popular field. Containing more than 30 original essays from both established and up-and-coming scholars, the volume presents: A history of the concept of regionalism, from the early years of the republic through to the current renaissance of literature rooted in place. A broad spectrum of theoretical approaches, including those drawn from ecology, cultural studies, feminism, and Native American studies. Profiles of the literature of specific regions of the United States, from California to New England and from Alaska to Hawaii. Discussions of authors and groups who have been important in defining or promoting regional American literature. This wide-ranging Companion is both an exploration of the concept of regionalism, and a celebration of the diversity of American regional literatures. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
