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The romance of authenticity : the cultural politics of regional and ethnic literatures

Title
The romance of authenticity : the cultural politics of regional and ethnic literatures / Jeff Karem.
Author
Karem, Jeff, 1973-
Publication
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004.

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Description
vii, 247 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Geschichte 1920-2000
  • American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Regionalism in literature
  • American literature > Minority authors > History and criticism
  • Politics and culture > United States
  • Ethnic groups in literature
  • Ethnicity in literature
  • Culture in literature
  • American literature
  • American literature > Minority authors
  • Politics and culture
  • Authentizität
  • Minderheitenliteratur
  • Prosa
  • Regionalpolitik
  • Prosa
  • United States
  • USA
  • USA
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-237) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- The boundaries of regionalism in the career of William Faulkner -- Richard Wright's reception: from regionalist to racial representative -- Searching for heroes: Ernest Gaines and his readers -- The permeable borders of Rolando Hinojosa's valley -- Representing the Southwest? The fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko -- Epilogue: resisting representation.
ISBN
  • 0813922542
  • 9780813922546
  • 0813922550
  • 9780813922553
LCCN
2003014895
OCLC
  • ocm52547614
  • 52547614
  • SCSB-1323412
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library