Geographical Imagination of Annie Proulx (eBook)

Rethinking Regionalism

Alex Hunt (Herausgeber)

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2010
228 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4616-3433-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This edited collection focuses on Annie Proulx's striking attention to geography, place, landscape, and local environments. Contributors consider Proulx's particular landscapes_particularly those of Wyoming, New England, Texas, and Newfoundland_and the issues surrounding the significance of these regions and regionalism in contemporary culture and literature.

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This highly readable edited collection focuses on the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx. Each contributor to this volume explores a different facet of Proulx's striking attention to geography, place, landscape, regional environments, and local economies in her writing. Covering all of her novels and short story collections, scholars from the United States, Canada, and abroad engage in critical analyses of Proulx's new regionalism, use of geographical settings, and themes of displacement and immigration.Taken together, these essays demonstrate Annie Proulx's contribution to new regionalist understandings of place on local, national, and global scales. Readers will come away with a better understanding of Proulx's particular landscapes-particularly those of Wyoming, New England, Texas, and Newfoundland-and the issues surrounding the significance of these regions in contemporary American culture and literature.

Autor

Alex Hunt is associate professor in the English department at West Texas A&M University.

Inhalt

1 Table of Contents2 AcknowledgmentsChapter 3 Introduction: The Insistence of Geography in the Writing of Annie ProulxPart 4 I. OrientationsChapter 5 1. The Influence of the Annales School on Annie Proulx's Geographical ImaginationChapter 6 2. Proulx and the Postmodern HyperrealChapter 7 3. Drinking the Elixir of Ownership: Pilgrims and Improvers in the Landscapes of Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole and The Shipping NewsChapter 8 4. Postnational United States Regional Hinterlands: Proulx's Ethnic Working-Class Communities in Accordion CrimesPart 9 II. GeographiesChapter 10 5. Born Under a Bad Sign: The Question of Geographical Determinism in the Hardscrabble Northern Badlands of Heart Songs and Other StoriesChapter 11 6. The Corpse in the Stone Wall: Annie Proulx's Ironic New EnglandChapter 12 7. "All the Qualities o' the Isle": The Shipping News as Island MythChapter 13 8. Annie Proulx's Wyoming: Geographical Determinism, Landscape, and CaricatureChapter 14 9. Westward Proulx: The Resistant Landscape of Close Range: Wyoming Stories and That Old Ace in the HolePart 15 III. DirectionsChapter 16 10. Landed Bodies: Geography and Disability in The Shipping NewsChapter 17 11. The Location of Immigration: Itinerant Communities and Cultural Hybridity in Annie Proulx's Accordion CrimesChapter 18 12. Brokeback Mountain as Progressive Narrative and Cinematic Vision: Landscape, Emotion, and the Denial of DomesticityChapter 19 13. Capitalism vs. Localism: Economies of Scale in Annie Proulx's Postcards and That Old Ace in the HoleChapter 20 14. The Ecology of Narrative: Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole as Critical Regionalist FictionChapter 21 Afterword: Red Desert: The History of a Place and Annie Proulx as Environmental Historian22 Bibliography23 Index24 Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.11.2010
• Co-Autor: Elizabeth Abele, Jennifer Denise Ryan, Kent C. Ryden, Christian Hummelsund Voie, O Alan Weltzien, Douglas Werden, Wes Berry, Paul Chafe, Hal Crimmel, Stephanie Durrans, Dan Flores, Margaret E. Johnson, Christopher Pullen, Bonnie Roos
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: American Literature • Literary Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-4616-3433-4 / 1461634334
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4616-3433-1 / 9781461634331