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 | | We will discuss the ways regionally identified literature served local communities, and, also, the interests of American nationalism, the way it argues with modernism, the way it helps and resists a national, urban culture, and the way it invites a diversity of authors to express themselves in literary form. |
 | | We will ask how regionalist literature is differently useful and differently crafted by writers whose identities are shaped not only by place, but also by the designations of class, race, gender, and ethnic/immigrant history. |
 | | We will study and challenge certain recurrent dualisms associated with the analysis of this literature: empathy vs. voyeuristic tourism, the rural vs. the urban, the communal vs. the individual, wilderness vs. settlement, regionalism vs. |
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