Writing Out of Place: Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture

by Judith Fetterley and Marjorie Pryse

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In a series of sketches, regionalist writers such as Alice Cary, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Sui Sin Far, and Mary Austin critique the approach to regional subjects characteristic of local color and create a countertradition of American writing that locates authority in narrators who serve as cultural interpreters for persons often considered "out of place" by urban readers. Reclaiming the ground of...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0252027671

ISBN13:9780252027673

Release Date:December 2002

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Length:422 Pages

Weight:1.65 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.7"

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