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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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- Description
- viii, 291 pages; 24 cm
- Subject
- 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