Midwestern literature
By: editor, Ronald Primeau
Series: Critical insights; Critical insights
Publisher: Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services; Grey House Publishing; Salem Pr
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ipswich, Massachusetts; Amenia, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781619252165; 9781619252172
Subjects: American literature; History and criticism; Intellectual life; In literature; American Authors; Homes and haunts
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-233) and index.
Table of contents: title: Midwestern literature in historical and cultural context / Marcia Noe; title: What is "middlewestishness"? the evolution of Midwestern literary studies / Sara Kosiba; title: Complicated grief, mourning and melancholia : reading the novel of Godfrey St. Peter's compounded losses in Willa Cather's The professor's house / Sarah Warren-Riley; title: For those non-Midwestern, Midwestern writers : Richard Powers, Toni Morrison and the Midwest Topos / Patricia Oman; title: Patricia Hampl, Minnesota and The florist's daughter : memoir as history / Marilyn Atlas; title: Your homeland is where you live and where you work : changing Midwestern pastoral(ism) in Tomas Rivera's ... And the earth did not devour him / William Barillas; title: "A place to fear and love" : the imagined heartland of David Foster Wallace's The broom of the system, Jurrit Daalder; title: Performing Africa in the American Midwest : memories of Africa in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Song of Solomon / Maureen Eke; title: It's heaven : sports literature and Iowa's pastoral image / Scott D. Emmert; title: Big shoulders, cat feet : the Midwestern dimensions of Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems / Phillip A. Greasley; title: Humor me, I'm from the Midwest : Mike Perry and the trope of poking fun at ourselves / Christian Knoeller; title: "Figures in transmotion" : bison hunt narratives as Mise en Abyme in the native literatures of the American Midwest / Matthew Low; title: In the heart of the land : Midwestern plays and playwrights / David Radavich; title: "A discovered land" : Willa Cather's Pioneers  John Rohrkemper; title: Chicago and Peter DeVries' Map of desire / Guy Szuberla.