Writing Out of Place: Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture

by Judith Fetterley and Marjorie Pryse

Book Overview

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 create a countertradition of American writing that locates authority in narrators who serve as cultural interpreters for persons often considered "out of place" by urban readers. Reclaiming the ground of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252027671
• ISBN13: 9780252027673
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.7"