American literary regionalism in a global age by Joseph, Philip, 1967- instant download

American literary regionalism in a global age by Joseph, Philip, 1967- instant download

xii, 232 pages : 24 cm, \"In this book, Philip Joseph considers how regional literature can remain relevant in a modern global community. Why, he asks, should we continue to read regionalist fiction in an age of expanding international communications and increasing nonlocal forms of affiliation? With this question as a guide, Joseph places the regionalist tradition of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries at the center of a contemporary conservation about community.\"--Jacket, Introduction: Regionalism and the literary encounter with local community -- The artist meets the rural community : Hamlin Garland, Sarah Orne Jewett, and the writing of 1890s regionalism -- New World relations : Abraham Cahan and the puzzle of Jewish American affiliation -- An interlude : Mary Austin's Southwestern protest and the politics of the new regionalism -- Art objects and the open community in Willa Cather's Southwest -- Justice and the global folk community in Zora Neale Hurston -- Conclusion: Flem Snopes and the problem of the open border, Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-221) and index