I ended last week by turning to the role of the editor. There are some on-line magazines that seem to want to reflect a regional literature. The international audience remains, of course, and if all goes well they will be presented with a good serving of a regional dish. It does seem like there is a possibility for regional literature in e-zines. When the body of western literature is considered as a whole, the close connection between this literature and the landscape is fairly conspicuous.
Landscape seems integral to literature in the same way that blood is integral to our bodies.
For literature to lose its ties to a region, it would have to lose its landscape. This is a pretty interesting notion given that some have argued that, while modernism has links with detective fiction, postmodernism shares characteristics of science fiction. All rights reserved. Used under License.