Violet America : regional cosmopolitanism in U.S. fiction since the Great Depression /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Arthur, Jason, 1976-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Series:	The new American canon : the Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture
Subjects:	Cosmopolitanism in literature. Regionalism in literature. American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: regional cosmopolitanism
Specific soil: James agee and the poverty of documentary work
Pavement: Jack Kerouac and the delocalization of America
The chinatown and the city: Maxine Hong Kingston and the relocalization of San Francisco
The deflowering of New England: Russell Banks and the wages of cosmopolitanism
Epilouge: Jonathan Franzen and the Unity of Discord.