Writing out of Place by Marjorie Pryse Judith Fetterley

University of Illinois Press, 2005-04-04. Paperback. Used:Good.

University of Illinois Press, 2005-04-04. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New. In Writing out of Place, Judith Fetterley and Marjorie Pryse explore a countertradition of nineteenth-century writing previously ignored by American literary history that challenged the definition of nation and literature that emerged after the Civil War. Regionalist writers such as Alice Cary, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Sui Sin Far, and Mary Austin present narrators who serve as cultural interpreters for persons often considered "out of place" by urban readers. Critiquing the approaches to regional subjects characteristic of local color, this book gives contemporary readers a vantage point from which to approach regions and regional people in the global economy of our own time. Reclaiming the ground of "close" reading for texts that have been insufficiently read, Fetterley and Pryse situate textual analyses within larger questions such as the ideology of form, feminist standpoint… Read More

Univ of Illinois Pr, 2005. Paperback. New. 422 pages. 9.00x5.75x0.50 inches.