Violet America [electronic resource] : regional cosmopolitanism in U.S. fiction since the Great Depression / by Jason Arthur.
Material type: TextSeries: The new American canon : the Iowa series in contemporary literature and culturePublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 168 pages )ISBN:- 9781609381486
- 1609381483
- 813/.309382 23
- PS374.R4 A78 2013
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-160) and index.
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.
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