Awards
- Winner of Received an Honourable Mention for the BAAS Book Prize for 2019.
Overview
Writers are shaped by and portray particular places. In their turn, stories shape our understanding of localities and the globe. Regional Writing and the Puzzles of Place-Time investigates human habits of thinking about place and its relations to power. It offers a revision of American literary history that overcomes the impasse between valuing authenticity and cosmopolitanism, and demonstrates the contemporary relevance of regionalism. It offers a flexible and expansive approach to genre criticism.
Full Product Details
Author: June Howard (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of American Culture, English Language and Literature, and Women's Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.620kg
ISBN: 9780198821397
ISBN 10: 0198821395
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 08 November 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
The panel found much to admire in this thoughtful, humane and reflexive discussion of the continuing relevance of local/regional fiction. It calls readers to appreciate the many connections between place, nation and the world in works of 'local color' and for them to see the relevance of those linkages for shifting conceptions of race, class, gender and nationality. Examining the 'entanglement' of place and time and power, and the politics and place of knowledge production, it is an important book for our Trump/Brexit-dominated times. * BAAS Book Prize 2019 Committee *
The panel found much to admire in this thoughtful, humane and reflexive discussion of the continuing relevance of local/regional fiction. It calls readers to appreciate the many connections between place, nation and the world in works of 'local color' and for them to see the relevance of those linkages for shifting conceptions of race, class, gender and nationality. Examining the 'entanglement' of place and time and power, and the politics and place of knowledge production, it is an important book for our Trump/Brexit-dominated times. * BAAS Book Prize 2019 Committee * This is a dense, provocative, and clearly conceived study. * M.L. Robertson, CHOICE *
Author Information
June Howard earned her B.A. at Antioch College and her Ph.D. from the Literature Department at the University of California, San Diego. She is on the faculty of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where she holds appointments in English, American Culture, and Women's Studies. Her research focuses on the literature and culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in the United States, and also addresses broad questions about the social life of reading and the production of knowledge. Her previous books are Form and History in American Literary Naturalism, an edited volume of essays on Sarah Orne Jewett, and Publishing the Family--a microhistory that takes the serial publication in Harper's Bazar of a collaborative novel by twelve authors, including Henry James and Mary Wilkins Freeman, as a window into the year 1908 and the 'public/private' binary as constitutive of modernity.
