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List of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xiv Introduction 1 PART I History and Theory of Regionalism in the United States 5 1 Contemporary Regionalism 7Michael Kowalewski 2 The Cultural Work of American Regionalism 25Stephanie Foote 3 Letting Go our Grand Obsessions: Notes toward a New Literary History of the American Frontiers 42Annette Kolodny 4 Region and Race: National Identity and the Southern Past 57Lori Robison 5 Regionalism in the Era of the New Deal 74Lauren Coats and Nihad M. Farooq 6 Realism and Regionalism 92Donna Campbell 7 Taking Feminism and Regionalism toward the Third Wave 111Krista Comer 8 Regionalism and Ecology 129David Mazel 9 The City as Region 137James Kyung-Jin Lee 10 Indigenous Peoples and Place 154P. Jane Hafen 11 Borders, Bodies, and Regions: The United States and the Caribbean 171Vera M. Kutzinski PART II Mapping Regions 193 12 New England Literature and Regional Identity 195Kent C. Ryden 13 The Great Plains 213Diane D. Quantic 14 Forgotten Frontier: Literature of the Old Northwest 231Bev Hogue 15 The Old Southwest: Humor, Tall Tales, and the Grotesque 247Rosemary D. Cox 16 The Plantation School: Dissenters and Countermyths 266Sarah E. Gardner 17 The Fugitive-Agrarians and the Twentieth-Century Southern Canon 286Farrell O???Gorman 18 Romanticizing a Different Lost Cause: Regional Identities in Louisiana and the Bayou Country 306Suzanne Disheroon-Green 19 The Sagebrush School Revived 324Lawrence I. Berkove 20 Re-envisioning the Big Sky: Regional Identity, Spatial Logics, and the Literature of Montana 344Susan Kollin 21 Regions of California: Mountains and Deserts 363Nicolas Witschi 22 Regions of California: The Great Central Valley 379Charles L. Crow 23 Los Angeles as a Literary Region 397David Fine 24 North and Northwest: Theorizing the Regional Literatures of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest 412Susan Kollin 25 Texas and the Great Southwest 432Mark Busby 26 Hawai???i 458Brenda Kwon PART III Some Regionalist Masters 477 27 Bret Harte and the Literary Construction of the American West 479Gary Scharnhorst 28 Mark Twain: A Man for All Regions 496Lawrence I. Berkove 29 Willa Cather???s Glittering Regions 513Robert Thacker 30 ???I have seen America emerging???: Mary Austin???s Regionalism 532Betsy Klimasmith 31 ???I have never recovered from the country???: The American West of Wallace Stegner 551Richard H. Cracroft Index 572