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Author:

Griffith, Jean Carol

Title:

The color of democracy in women's regional writing / Jean Carol Griffith.

Publisher:

University of Alabama Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

x, 217 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--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
New York (N.Y.)--In literature.
Southern States--In literature.
West (U.S.)--In literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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 c©♭tait 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".

Series:

Studies in American literary realism and naturalism

ISBN:

0817382399 (electronic)
9780817382391 (electronic)
0817316612 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780817316617 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)277040874

LCCN:

2008051153

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)