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American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 656–658.
Published: 01 September 2003
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Regional Fictions: Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.
By Stephanie Foote. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 2001. vi, 218 pp. Cloth...
View articletitled, American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995; The Culture Concept: Writing and Difference in the Age of Realism; <span class="search-highlight">Regional</span> Fictions: Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
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for article titled, American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995; The Culture Concept: Writing and Difference in the Age of Realism; <span class="search-highlight">Regional</span> Fictions: Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
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Linking Regional and Global Spaces in Pursuit of Southern Distinctiveness
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 712–714.
Published: 01 December 2006
... to be, as Houston Baker and Dana Nelson en-
vision it, less preoccupied with exhausted images of patriarchal white-
ness and rural idyll and more concerned with understanding the U.S.
South as ‘‘thick’’ with border-crossings of every sort: racial, gendered,
regional, transnational. Our own thinking about...
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Looking for the Real South: Regional, National, and Hemispheric Perspectives
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 649–659.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Annette Trefzer © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Annette Looking for the Real South: Regional, National,
Trefzer and Hemispheric Perspectives
Normans and Saxons: Southern Race Mythology and the Intellectual History of the
American Civil War. By Ritchie Devon...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 857–859.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Philip Joseph Duke University Press 2007 The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland . By William Barillas. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2006. xviii, 258 pp. $39.95. Reclaiming the American Farmer: The Reinvention of a Regional Mythology...
View articletitled, The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland; Reclaiming the American Farmer: The Reinvention of a <span class="search-highlight">Regional</span> Mythology in Twentieth-Century Southern Writing; How They Shine: Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia
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for article titled, The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland; Reclaiming the American Farmer: The Reinvention of a <span class="search-highlight">Regional</span> Mythology in Twentieth-Century Southern Writing; How They Shine: Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia
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Race Mixing: Southern Fiction since the Sixties; The Romance of Authenticity: The Cultural Politics of Regional and Ethnic Literatures
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 633–635.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Victoria Ramirez Duke University Press 2006 Race Mixing: Southern Fiction since the Sixties . By Suzanne W. Jones. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 346 pp. $45.95. The Romance of Authenticity: The Cultural Politics of Regional and Ethnic Literatures . By Jeff...
View articletitled, Race Mixing: Southern Fiction since the Sixties; The Romance of Authenticity: The Cultural Politics of <span class="search-highlight">Regional</span> and Ethnic Literatures
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for article titled, Race Mixing: Southern Fiction since the Sixties; The Romance of Authenticity: The Cultural Politics of <span class="search-highlight">Regional</span> and Ethnic Literatures
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 894–897.
Published: 01 December 2004
... Literature
authors ask us to keep politics, form, and publication history in analytical
dialogue.
Matt Cohen, Duke University
Melinda DiStefano, Duke University
An American Colony: Regionalism and the Roots of Midwestern Culture. By Edward
Watts. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2002. xxv, 285 pp. $55.00...
View articletitled, An American Colony: <span class="search-highlight">Regionalism</span> and the Roots of Midwestern Culture; Writing out of Place: <span class="search-highlight">Regionalism</span>, Women, and American Literary Culture; Translating Southwestern Landscapes: The Making of an Anglo Literary <span class="search-highlight">Region</span>
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for article titled, An American Colony: <span class="search-highlight">Regionalism</span> and the Roots of Midwestern Culture; Writing out of Place: <span class="search-highlight">Regionalism</span>, Women, and American Literary Culture; Translating Southwestern Landscapes: The Making of an Anglo Literary <span class="search-highlight">Region</span>
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American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 615–618.
Published: 01 September 2007
...Stephanie Foote Duke University Press 2007 Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value . By Tom Lutz. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2004. vii, 226 pp. Paper, $19.95. At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930...
View articletitled, Cosmopolitan Vistas: American <span class="search-highlight">Regionalism</span> and Literary Value; At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930; Literature of Place: Dwelling on the Land before Earth Day 1970; Seeking the <span class="search-highlight">Region</span> in American Literature and Culture: Modernity, Dissidence, Innovation
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for article titled, Cosmopolitan Vistas: American <span class="search-highlight">Regionalism</span> and Literary Value; At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930; Literature of Place: Dwelling on the Land before Earth Day 1970; Seeking the <span class="search-highlight">Region</span> in American Literature and Culture: Modernity, Dissidence, Innovation
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American Literary Regionalism in a Global Age; Critical Regionalism: Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape; From the Garden Club: Rural Women Writing Community
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 180–182.
Published: 01 March 2008
... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 American Literary Regionalism in a Global Age . By Philip Joseph. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2007. xii, 232 pp. $45.00. Critical Regionalism: Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape . By Douglas Reichert...
View articletitled, American Literary <span class="search-highlight">Regionalism</span> in a Global Age; Critical <span class="search-highlight">Regionalism</span>: Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape; From the Garden Club: Rural Women Writing Community
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for article titled, American Literary <span class="search-highlight">Regionalism</span> in a Global Age; Critical <span class="search-highlight">Regionalism</span>: Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape; From the Garden Club: Rural Women Writing Community
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Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problems of Regionalism
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 176–177.
Published: 01 March 2002
... of the
‘‘Southern writing’’ genre. Expansive and vibrantly written, it will satisfy not
only specialists in Southern literature but also critics searching for more flex-
ible literary approaches to general topics, such as the relationship of regions
to the nation and the interrelationships of race, gender...
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Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction Since 1878 Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 407–409.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Stephanie Foote Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction since 1878 . By Satterwhite Emily . Lexington : Univ. Press of Kentucky . 2011 . xvi, 396 pp. $40.00 . Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature . By Davis Thadious M. . Chapel Hill...
View articletitled, Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction Since 1878 Southscapes: Geographies of Race, <span class="search-highlight">Region</span>, and Literature
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The Painting of Modern Light: Local Color Before Regionalism
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 551–581.
Published: 01 September 2014
... that its primary purpose within realism was not the delineation of regions, but rather the production of an affective and aesthetic engagement with the cosmopolitan project of self-cultivation. The local-color detail was generally not used as a representative detail of a place, but rather, by the late...
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The Great American Songbooks: Musical Texts, Modernism, and the Value of Popular Culture Sweet Air: Modernism, Regionalism, and American Popular Song
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 623–625.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Chris Forster The Great American Songbooks: Musical Texts, Modernism, and the Value of Popular Culture . By Graham T. Austin . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2013 . xvii , 293 pp. $65.00 . Sweet Air: Modernism, Regionalism, and American Popular Song . By Comentale Edward...
View articletitled, The Great American Songbooks: Musical Texts, Modernism, and the Value of Popular Culture Sweet Air: Modernism, <span class="search-highlight">Regionalism</span>, and American Popular Song
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for article titled, The Great American Songbooks: Musical Texts, Modernism, and the Value of Popular Culture Sweet Air: Modernism, <span class="search-highlight">Regionalism</span>, and American Popular Song
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Psychology Comes to Harlem: Rethinking the Race Question in Twentieth-Century America Black Regions of the Imagination: African American Writers between the Nation and the World
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 398–400.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Patrick Elliot Alexander Psychology Comes to Harlem: Rethinking the Race Question in Twentieth-Century America . By Garcia Jay . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . 2012 . x , 216 pp. Cloth , $50.00 ; e-book , $50.00 . Black Regions of the Imagination: African American...
View articletitled, Psychology Comes to Harlem: Rethinking the Race Question in Twentieth-Century America Black <span class="search-highlight">Regions</span> of the Imagination: African American Writers between the Nation and the World
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for article titled, Psychology Comes to Harlem: Rethinking the Race Question in Twentieth-Century America Black <span class="search-highlight">Regions</span> of the Imagination: African American Writers between the Nation and the World
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Region, Capitalism, and the Jew in the Post- Tom Plantation Novel
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 295–322.
Published: 01 June 2019
..., and you’re likely to find a somewhat unexpected figure of regional and cultural difference: the conniving, avaricious Jew. Indeed, whether “anti- Tom ” or abolitionist in orientation, the plantation novel of the 1850s is surprisingly reliant on this stereotyped but also uniquely fungible character. Maria...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 859–867.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Alfred Hornung Duke University Press 2006 South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture . Ed. Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2002. xxiii, 394 pp. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $36.95. History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent...
View articletitled, “Unstoppable” Creolization: The Evolution of the South into a Transnational Cultural Space; South to a New Place: <span class="search-highlight">Region</span>, Literature, Culture; History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction; Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales
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for article titled, “Unstoppable” Creolization: The Evolution of the South into a Transnational Cultural Space; South to a New Place: <span class="search-highlight">Region</span>, Literature, Culture; History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction; Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales
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Toward a Definition of Caribbean American Regionalism: Contesting Anglo-America's Caribbean Designs in Mary Seacole and Sui Sin Far
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 293–322.
Published: 01 June 2008
..., the author charts a field of writing he terms Caribbean American Regionalism, which is not bound necessarily to the geographic or ideological commitments of U.S. regionalist traditions even as it acknowledges and extends from innovative scholarship about them. The essay focuses on the role of women's voices...
View articletitled, Toward a Definition of Caribbean American <span class="search-highlight">Regionalism</span>: Contesting Anglo-America's Caribbean Designs in Mary Seacole and Sui Sin Far
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for article titled, Toward a Definition of Caribbean American <span class="search-highlight">Regionalism</span>: Contesting Anglo-America's Caribbean Designs in Mary Seacole and Sui Sin Far
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Contested Terrain: The Suburbs as Region
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 617–644.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Keith Wilhite Wilhite contends that a general indebtedness to Cold War cultural critique has kept literary scholars from reading the suburbs and suburban fiction for what they truly are: the endgame and final outpost of US regionalism. Drawing on discussions of regional writing and cultural...
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Documenting Tradition: Territoriality and Textuality in Black Hawk's Narrative
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American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 677–705.
Published: 01 December 2008
... a decades-long struggle between the United States and the Sauks, as well as other native peoples in the western Great Lakes region, over how to conceptualize native landholding, diplomacy, and trade. The narrative explores the effects of reducing a complex regional matrix to a series of treaty-mediated...
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John Cleves Symmes and the Planetary Reach of Polar Exploration
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 243–271.
Published: 01 June 2012
... possibilities that the Arctic and Antarctic regions offer to hemispheric and transnational conversations, as well as to more recent calls to reorganize critical thinking from a planetary perspective. Blum explores the difference in resources, both material and critical, presented by polar spaces. By resources...
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Transforming Geographies of Black Time: How the Free Southern Theater Used the Plantation for Civil Rights Activism
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 587–617.
Published: 01 September 2019
... time-conscious plays, the theater used temporal aesthetics to transform the region’s historical geographies of black time (e.g., the labor time of black slaves and sharecroppers working in cotton fields) into radical sites of black political action, aesthetic innovation, and embodied performance...
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