The color of democracy in women's regional writing
By: Jean Carol Griffith.
Series: Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780817316617; 9780817382391
Subjects: American literature -- Women authors -- 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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: writing region in the new century; title: "Is New York such a labyrinth?": street life and amalgamation in Wharton's and Glasgow's city; title: Men of the mob and "fascinatingly American" women; title: "Et que cetait comme dans le livre": Wharton, the Harlem Renaissance, and all that jazz; title: "Virginia is not dead but sleepeth": segregation and the "family Black and white" in Glasgow's and Cather's South; title: Family reunion: slavery as usable past; title: A house divided: the interracial family and the white supremacist community; title: "Fortunate country": old immigrants and new women in Cather's and Wharton's West; title: How the West was whitened; title: New women and the world of business.