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Breaking boundaries : new perspectives on women's regional writing

Title
Breaking boundaries : new perspectives on women's regional writing / edited by Sherrie A. Inness and Diana Royer.
Publication
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Inness, Sherrie A.
  • Royer, Diana, 1959-
Description
viii, 291 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • American literature > History and criticism
  • Women and literature > United States
  • Regionalism > United States
  • Regionalism in literature
  • United States > In literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-280) and index.
Contents
  • Introduction / Sherrie A. Inness and Diana Royer -- 1. Origins of American Literary Regionalism: Gender in Irving, Stowe, and Longstreet / Marjorie Pryse -- 2. Theorizing Regionalism: Celia Thaxter's Among the Isles of Shoals / Judith Fetterley -- 3. "Why, why do we not write our side?" Gender and Southern Self-representation in Grace King's Balcony Stories / Lori Robison -- 4. Emplotting National History: Regionalism and Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces / Francesca Sawaya -- 5. Making the Strange(r) Familiar: Sarah Orne Jewett's "The Foreigner" / Cynthia J. Davis -- 6. Regionalist Bodies/Embodied Regions: Sarah Orne Jewett and Zitkala-Sa / D. K. Meisenheimer, Jr. -- 7. "There was a part for her in the Indian life": Mary Austin, Regionalism, and the Problems of Appropriation / Noreen Groover Lape -- 8. Writing the Midwest: Meridel Le Sueur and the Making of a Radical Regional Tradition / Julia Mickenberg --
  • 9. "Wherever I am living": The "Lady of the Limberlost" Resituates / Barbara Ryan -- 10. In Pursuit of Regional and Cultural Identity: The Autobiographies of Agnes Morley Cleaveland and Fabiola Cabeza de Baca / Becky Jo Gesteland McShane -- 11. "A mutual journey": Wilma Dykeman and Appalachian Regionalism / Patricia M. Gantt -- 12. Sidestepping Environmental Justice: "Natural" Landscapes and the Wilderness Plot / Krista Comer -- 13. Not Just Any Land: Linda Hasselstrom at Home on the American Grasslands / John T. Price.
ISBN
  • 087745602X (acid-free paper)
  • 0877456038 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LCCN
97008757
OCLC
  • 36739507
  • ocm36739507
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries