Research Catalog

Title

'Writing' nation and 'writing' region in America / edited by Theo Dh́ean and Hans Bertens ; with contributions from Ineke Bockting ... [et al.].

Publication

Amsterdam : VU University Press, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bertens, Johannes Willem
• Haen, Theo d'
• Bockting, Ineke
• Netherlands American Studies Association.

Description

iii, 271 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

European contributions to American studies ; 33

Uniform Title

European contributions to American studies 33.

Subject

• National characteristics, American, in literature > Congresses
• Regionalism > United States > Congresses
• Nationalism and literature > United States > Congresses
• Local color in literature > Congresses
• Popular culture > United States > Congresses
• American literature > History and criticism > Congresses
• Regionalism in literature > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "The present volume results from a Netherlands American Studies Association conference organised in June 1994 ... in Middelburg, Zeeland."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• And isolationism / D. Bosscher. from Palace to plantation House: National identity and regional symbolism in American diplomatic architecture, 1920-33 / R. Robin. after the Cold War region, nation and world in American studies / A. Kaenel.
• Anything": constructing identities in apartment buildings in Tennessee Williams's a streetcar named desire and Armistead Maupin's tales of the City / D. van Oostrum. "implacable and Brooding image": William Faulkner and Southern.
• Bockting. political identities in contemporary chicana literature: Helena Viramontes's visions of the U.S. Third world / S. Saldivar-Hull. the National model for American ethnic narrative / p. Carafiol -- popular culture perspectives.
• Introduction / Theo D'haen and Hans Bertens -- historical perspectives. the old and the new regionalism / L. Honnighausen. regionalism in North America / C.D. Eysberg.
• Landsouthern defensive narrative and the childhood autobiography.
• Leenhouts. Owen Wister and emergent discourse of the American West / J. Dorst. a New West, or a New Western / A. Scheele. the Southern and the Western: writing region and National in Hollywood cinema / J. Deutsch. writing Alaska.
• Literary perspectives. loaded guns: place and women's place in nineteenth-century New England / R. Neinstein. Middle ground: evolving regional images in the American Middle West / C.E. Raymond. "dear ... I have no objection to.
• Regional impulses for American Foreign policy the Middle-West.
• Regions of the soul: ethnography as narrative / J. Peacock. mapping the colour line: the WPA guidebook to North Carolina / C. bold. local noir: putting Southern Louisiana on the map in the crime fiction of James Lee Burke / A.
• Writing the nation: Northern exposure and the Quesfor a New America / E. Romeyn and J. Kugelmass.

ISBN

9053834222

OCLC

• 37312174
• SCSB-12158648

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library