The color of democracy in women's regional writing [[electronic resource] /] / Jean Carol Griffith

• Autore: Griffith Jean Carol
• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2009
• 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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".
• 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.: 9910461658903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.