A Companion to the Regional Literatures of

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.

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.

List of Illustrations

viii

Notes on Contributors

ix

Acknowledgments

xiv

Introduction

1

(4)

PART I History and Theory of Regionalism in the United States

5

(188)

1 Contemporary Regionalism

7

(18)

Michael Kowalewski

2 The Cultural Work of American Regionalism

25

(17)

Stephanie Foote

3 Letting Go our Grand Obsessions: Notes toward a New Literary History of the American Frontiers

42

(15)

Annette Kolodny

4 Region and Race: National Identity and the Southern Past

57

(17)

Lori Robison

5 Regionalism in the Era of the New Deal

74

(18)

Lauren Coats and Nihad M. Faroq

6 Realism and Regionalism

92

(19)

Donna Campbell

7 Taking Feminism and Regionalism toward the Third Wave

111

(18)

Krista Comer

8 Regionalism and Ecology

129

(8)

David Mazel

9 The City as Region

137

(17)

James Kyung Jin Lee

10 Indigenous Peoples and Place

154

(17)

P. Jane Hafen

11 Borders, Bodies, and Regions: The United States and the Caribbean

171

(22)

Vera M. Kutzinski

PART II Mapping Regions

193

(284)

12 New England Literature and Regional Identity

195

(18)

Kent C. Ryden

13 The Great Plains

213

(18)

Diane D. Quantic

14 Forgotten Frontier: Literature of the Old Northwest

231

(16)

Bev Hogue

15 The Old Southwest: Humor, Tall Tales, and the Grotesque

247

(19)

Rosemary D. Cox

16 The Plantation School: Dissenters and Countermyths

266

(20)

Sarah E. Gardner

17 The Fugitive-Agrarians and the Twentieth-Century Southern Canon

286

(20)

Farrell O'Gorman

18 Romanticizing a Different Lost Cause: Regional Identities in Louisiana and the Bayou Country

306

(18)

Suzanne Disheroon-Green

19 The Sagebrush School Revived

324

(20)

Lawrence I. Berkove

20 Re-envisioning the Big Sky: Regional Identity, Spatial Logics, and the Literature of Montana

344

(19)

Susan Kollin

21 Regions of California: Mountains and Deserts

363

(16)

Nicolas Witschi

22 Regions of California: The Great Central Valley

379

(18)

Charles L. Crow

23 Los Angeles as a Literary Region

397

(15)

David Fine

24 North and Northwest: Theorizing the Regional Literatures of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest

412

(20)

Susan Kollin

25 Texas and the Great Southwest

432

(26)

Mark Busby

26 Hawai'i

458

(19)

Brenda Kwon

PART III Some Regionalist Masters

477

(95)

27 Bret Harte and the Literary Construction of the American West

479

(17)

Gary Scharnhorst

28 Mark Twain: A Man for All Regions

496

(17)

Lawrence I. Berkove

29 Willa Lather's Glittering Regions

513

(19)

Robert Thacker

30 "I have seen America emerging": Mary Austin's Regionalism

532

(19)

Betsy Klimasmitte

31 "I have never recovered from the country": The American West of Wallace Stegner

551

(21)

Richard H. Cracroft

Index

572

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A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America

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