The color of democracy in women's regional writing / / Jean Carol Griffith
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| Autore: |
Griffith Jean Carol
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| Titolo: |
The color of democracy in women's regional writing / / Jean Carol Griffith
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| Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/9287 |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - Women authors - History and criticism |
| American literature - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| Women authors, American - Political and social views | |
| Regionalism in literature | |
| Local history in literature | |
| Democracy in literature | |
| Soggetto geografico: | New York (N.Y.) In literature |
| Southern States In literature | |
| West (U.S.) In literature | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: Writing region in the new century -- "Is New York such a labyrinth?" : street life and amalgamation in Wharton's and Glasgow's city -- Men of the mob and "fascinatingly American" women -- "Et que cetait comme dans le livre" : Wharton, the Harlem Renaissance, and all that jazz -- "Virginia is not dead but sleepeth": segregation and the "family Black and white" in Glasgow's and Cather's South -- Family reunion : slavery as usable past -- A house divided : the interracial family and the white supremacist community -- "Fortunate country" : old immigrants and new women in Cather's and Wharton's West -- How the West was whitened -- New women and the world of business -- Conclusion: "Always, everywhere, inferior". |
| Sommario/riassunto: | An exciting addition to the ongoing debate about the place of regionalism in American literary history.American regionalism has become a contested subject in literary studies alongside the ubiquitous triad of race, class, and gender. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The color of democracy in women's regional writing |
| ISBN: | 0-8173-8239-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910955982903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.