Companion to the Regional Literatures of America

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 viiiNotes on Contributors ixAcknowledgments xivIntroduction 1PART I History and Theory of Regionalism in the United States 51 Contemporary Regionalism 7Michael Kowalewski2 The Cultural Work of American Regionalism 25Stephanie Foote3 Letting Go our Grand Obsessions: Notes toward a New Literary History of the American Frontiers 42Annette Kolodny4 Region and Race: National Identity and the Southern Past 57Lori Robison5 Regionalism in the Era of the New Deal 74Lauren Coats and Nihad M. Farooq6 Realism and Regionalism 92Donna Campbell7 Taking Feminism and Regionalism toward the Third Wave 111Krista Comer8 Regionalism and Ecology 129David Mazel9 The City as Region 137James Kyung-Jin Lee10 Indigenous Peoples and Place 154P. Jane Hafen11 Borders, Bodies, and Regions: The United States and the Caribbean 171Vera M. KutzinskiPART II Mapping Regions 19312 New England Literature and Regional Identity 195Kent C. Ryden13 The Great Plains 213Diane D. Quantic14 Forgotten Frontier: Literature of the Old Northwest 231Bev Hogue15 The Old Southwest: Humor, Tall Tales, and the Grotesque 247Rosemary D. Cox16 The Plantation School: Dissenters and Countermyths 266Sarah E. Gardner17 The Fugitive-Agrarians and the Twentieth-Century Southern Canon 286Farrell O’Gorman18 Romanticizing a Different Lost Cause: Regional Identities in Louisiana and the Bayou Country 306Suzanne Disheroon-Green19 The Sagebrush School Revived 324Lawrence I. Berkove20 Re-envisioning the Big Sky: Regional Identity, Spatial Logics, and the Literature of Montana 344Susan Kollin21 Regions of California: Mountains and Deserts 363Nicolas Witschi22 Regions of California: The Great Central Valley 379Charles L. Crow23 Los Angeles as a Literary Region 397David Fine24 North and Northwest: Theorizing the Regional Literatures of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest 412Susan Kollin25 Texas and the Great Southwest 432Mark Busby26 Hawai’i 458Brenda KwonPART III Some Regionalist Masters 47727 Bret Harte and the Literary Construction of the American West 479Gary Scharnhorst28 Mark Twain: A Man for All Regions 496Lawrence I. Berkove29 Willa Cather’s Glittering Regions 513Robert Thacker30 “I have seen America emerging”: Mary Austin’s Regionalism 532Betsy Klimasmith31 “I have never recovered from the country”: The American West of Wallace Stegner 551Richard H. CracroftIndex 572

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