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03002aam a22004458i 4500 001 8FA450EA664511EDB99D19AA23ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221117010035 008 220613s2022 iau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022002130 020 $a 1609388577 020 $a 9781609388577 035 $a (OCoLC)1340412182 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS374.S82 $b W55 2022 100 1 $a Wilhite, Keith, $e author. 245 10 $a Contested terrain : $b suburban fiction and U.S. regionalism, 1945-2020 / $c Keith Wilhite. 264 1 $a Iowa City : $b University of Iowa Press, $c [2022] 300 $a x, 296 pages : $b illustration (black and white), map (black and white) ; $c 23 cm 490 0 $a The new American canon : the Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture 520 $a "Drawing on a body of literature published between 1945 and 2016, Contested Terrain proposes a more expansive treatment of suburban fiction as a discourse that operates within national and transnational geographies. Wilhite argues that the suburbs and suburban narratives reflect the latest, perhaps final outpost in the tradition of U.S. regionalism. Although he may be accused of simply substituting one outmoded methodology for another, such a critique depends on misreading regionalism as either a sub-literary genre or, as Roberto Dainotto suggests, a pernicious political ideology that opposes modernity and suppresses difference in the naive pursuit of "grounded, rooted, natural, authentic values shared by a true community." In opposition to such withering appraisals, Contested Terrain demonstrates that, as both a literary discourse and a mode of geopolitical analysis, regionalism clarifies the fraught relationship between isolationism and imperialism that has shaped U.S. residential geography and, in turn, helps us rethink the role literary texts play in the postwar project of suburban nation building"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 648 7 $a 1900-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a Suburban life in literature. 650 0 $a Suburbs in literature. 650 0 $a Regionalism in literature. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a American fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807048 650 7 $a Regionalism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01093231 650 7 $a Suburban life in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01136934 650 7 $a Suburbs in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01136954 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01986215 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 710 2 $a University of Iowa Press, $e donor. $e donor. $5 IaU 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117030605.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8FA450EA664511EDB99D19AA23ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search