TY - BOOK AU - Arthur,Jason ED - Project Muse. TI - Violet America: regional cosmopolitanism in U.S. fiction since the Great Depression T2 - The new American canon : the Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture SN - 9781609381486 AV - PS374.R4 A78 2013 U1 - 813/.309382 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Iowa City PB - University of Iowa Press KW - Cosmopolitanism in literature KW - Regionalism in literature KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781609381486/ ER -