Breaking boundaries : new perspectives on women's regional writing /
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| Language: | English |
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Iowa City, Iowa :
University of Iowa Press,
©1997.
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=22042 |
Table of Contents:
- Part One. Reenvisioning traditional regionalism. Origins of American literary regionalism: gender in Irving, Stowe, Longstreet / Marjorie Pryse ; Theorizing regionalism: Celia Thaxter's Among the Isles of Shoals. / Judith Fetterley ; Why, why do we not write our side?' gender and Southern presentation in Grace King's Balcony Stories / Lori Robinson ; Emplotting national history: regionalism and Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces / Francesca Sawaya ; Making the strange(r) familiar: Sarah Orne Jewett's "The foreigner" / Cynthia J. Davis ; Regionalist bodies/embodied regions: Sarah Orne Jewett and Zitkala-Sa / D.K. Meisenheimer, Jr. ; "There was a part for her in the Indian life": Mary Austin, regionalism, and the problems of appropriation / Noreen Groover
- Part two. Expanding the genre. Writing the Midwest: Meridel Le Sueur and the making of a radical regional tradition / Julia Mickenberg ; "Wherever I am living": the "Lady of the Limberlost" resituates / Barbara Ryan ; In pursuit of regional and cultural identity: the autobiographies of Agnes Morely Cleaveland and Fabiola Cabeza de Baca / Becky Jo Gesteland McShane ; "A mutual journey": Wilma Dykeman and Appalachian regionalism / Patricia M. Gantt ; Sidestepping environmental justice: "natural" landscapes and the wilderness plot / Krista Comer ; Not just any land: Linda Hasselstrom at home on the American grasslands / John T. Price.