Violet America : regional cosmopolitanism in U.S. fiction since the Great Depression /

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This book takes on the long habit among literary historians and critics of thinking about large segments of American literary production in terms of regionalism. The author argues that classifying broad swaths of American literature as regionalist or "local color" writing brings with it a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Arthur, Jason, 1976- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2013]
Colección:New American canon.
Temas:
1900-1999
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Regionalism in literature.
Cosmopolitanism in literature.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature régionale.
Cosmopolitisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction
Cosmopolitanism in literature
Regionalism in literature
Literatur
Weltbürgertum
Regionalismus
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : regional cosmopolitanism
  • Specific soil : James Agee and the poverty of documentary work
  • Pavement : Jack Kerouac and the delocalization of America
  • The Chinatown and the city : Maxine Hong Kingston and the relocalization of San Francisco
  • The deflowering of New England : Russell Banks and the wages of cosmopolitanism
  • Violet America : Jonathan Franzen and the unity of discord.

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