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title	:	Breaking Boundaries : New Perspectives On Women's Regional Writing
author	:	Inness, Sherrie A.
publisher	:	University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0877456038
print isbn13	:	9780877456032
ebook isbn13	:	9781587291159
language	:	English
subject	American literature--Women authors--History and criticism, Women and literature--United States, United States--In literature, Regionalism--United States, Regionalism in literature.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	PS152.B74 1997eb
ddc	:	810.9/9287
subject	:	American literature--Women authors--History and criticism, Women and literature--United States, United States--In literature, Regionalism--United States, Regionalism in literature.

Page iii Breaking Boundaries New Perspectives on Women's Regional Writing Edited by Sherrie A. Inness and Diana Royer University of Iowa Press Iowa City

Page iv University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1997 by the University of Iowa Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Design by Omega Clay http://www.uiowa.edu/~uipress No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher. All reasonable steps have been taken to contact copyright holders of material used in this book. The publisher would be pleased to make suitable arrangements with any whom it has not been possible to reach. Printed on acid-free paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Breaking boundaries: new perspectives on women's regional writing / edited by Sherrie A. Inness and Diana Royer. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-87745-602-X, ISBN 0-87745-603-8 (pbk.) 1. American literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism. 2. Women and literatureUnited States. 3. United StatesIn literature. 4. RegionalismUnited States. 5. Regionalism in literature. I. Inness, Sherrie A. II. Royer, Diana, 1959 PS152.B74 1997 810.9'9287dc21 97-8757 02 01 00 99 98 97 C 5 4 3 2 1 02 01 00 99 98 97 P 5 4 3 2 1

Page v For Kathryn Shevelow and in memory of Carrie Taylor

Page vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction Sherrie A. Inness and Diana Royer 1 Part One Reenvisioning Traditional Regionalism 1. Origins of American Literary Regionalism: Gender in Irving, Stowe, and Longstreet Marjorie Pryse 17 2. Theorizing Regionalism: Celia Thaxter's Among the Isles of Shoals Judith Fetterley 38 3. "Why, why do we not write our side?" Gender and Southern Self-representation in Grace King's Balcony Stories Lori Robison 54 4. Emplotting National History: Regionalism and Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces Francesca Sawaya 72 5. Making the Strange(r) Familiar: Sarah Orne Jewett's "The Foreigner" Cynthia J. Davis 88 6. Regionalist Bodies/Embodied Regions: Sarah Orne Jewett and D. K. Meisenheimer, Jr. 109 7. "There was a part for her in the Indian life": Mary Austin, Regionalism, and the Problems of Appropriation Noreen Groover Lape 124

Page viii Part Two Expanding the Genre 8. Writing the Midwest: Meridel Le Sueur and the Making of a Radical Regional Tradition Julia Mickenberg 143 9. "Wherever I am living": The "Lady of the Limberlost" Resituates Barbara Ryan 162 10. In Pursuit of Regional and Cultural Identity: The Autobiographies of Agnes Morley Cleaveland and Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Becky Jo Gesteland McShane 180 11. "A mutual journey": Wilma Dykeman and Appalachian Regionalism Patricia M. Gantt 197 12. Sidestepping Environmental Justice: "Natural" Landscapes and the Wilderness Plot Krista Comer 216 13. Not Just Any Land: Linda Hasselstrom at Home on the American Grasslands John T. Price 237 Works Cited 259 Notes on Contributors 281 Index 285

Page ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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