Seeking the region in American literature and culture
Subtitle: modernity, dissidence, innovation
By: Robert Jackson.
Series: Southern literary studies
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism.; Regionalism in literature.; Southern States -- Intellectual life.; Southern States -- In literature.
Description: "Regionalism often evokes provinciality and an affiliation with minor literary genres, but Robert Jackson shows that region is an integral part of American identity, providing grounding for major independent voices. Jackson offers a new critical model of region that contributes to literary and cultural study across a wide range of topics. He addresses American literature since the Civil War with particular attention to Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Toni Morrison.

In advancing their own diverse aesthetic and social agendas -- reactionary and progressive, theological and secular, gender-based, race-based, and above all, dissident -- these writers, Jackson argues, articulate some of the most perceptive and innovative expressions of the American region in the literary history of the United States"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-170) and index.