Introduction: Transnational Approaches to North American Regionalism

In the past ten to fifteen years, critical understandings of regions and, concomitantly, regionalist approaches to literature and culture have undergone considerable changes. Studies such as Laurie Ricou’s The Arbutus/Madrone Files (2002) or Claudia Sadowski-Smith’s Border Fictions (2008), for inst...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Freitag, Florian, Sandrock, Kirsten A.
Materialtyp: Article ou chapitre numérique
Publicerad: European journal of American studies 2014
Länkar:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sammanfattning:In the past ten to fifteen years, critical understandings of regions and, concomitantly, regionalist approaches to literature and culture have undergone considerable changes. Studies such as Laurie Ricou’s The Arbutus/Madrone Files (2002) or Claudia Sadowski-Smith’s Border Fictions (2008), for instance, have focused on spaces and cultures that cross and crystallize around North American national borders, thereby questioning traditional, which is to say national, delineations of region. Even ...