Writing out of place
Subtitle: regionalism, women, and American literary culture
By: Judith Fetterley and Marjorie Pryse.
Contributors: Pryse, Marjorie, 1948-
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
Subjects: American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Feminism and literature -- United States.; Women and literature -- United States.; Place (Philosophy) in literature.; Regionalism in literature.; Setting (Literature)
Description: "In Writing out of Place, Judith Fetterley and Marjorie Pryse explore a countertradition of nineteenth-century writing previously ignored by American literary history. The writers who comprise this tradition challenged the definition of the nation and of literature that emerged after the Civil War.".

"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 present narrators who serve as cultural interpreters for persons often considered "out of place" by urban readers.

In their approach to these writers, Fetterley and Pryse offer contemporary readers an alternative vantage point from which to consider questions of regions and regionalism in the global economy of our own time."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-412) and index.
Table of contents: title: Redefinitions; title: Locating regionalism in American literary history; title: Origins : the history of an impulse; title: The poetics of empathic narration - Free to say : thematics; title: The sketch form and conventions of story; title: Regionalism and the question of the American; title: Feminist epistemology and the regionalist standpoint; title: Race, class, and questions of region; title: Regionalism as "queer" theory; title: "Close" reading and empathy.