The Literature of the Ozarks

The Literature of the Ozarks
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Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9781610756587
ISBN-13 : 1610756584
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Book Synopsis The Literature of the Ozarks by : Phillip Douglas Howerton

Download or read book The Literature of the Ozarks written by Phillip Douglas Howerton and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The job of regional literature is twofold: to explore and confront the culture from within, and to help define that culture for outsiders. Taken together, the two centuries of Ozarks literature collected in this ambitious anthology do just that. The fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama presented in The Literature of the Ozarks complicate assumptions about backwoods ignorance, debunk the pastoral myth, expand on the meaning of wilderness, and position the Ozarks as a crossroads of human experience with meaningful ties to national literary movements. Among the authors presented here are an Osage priest, an early explorer from New York, a native-born farm wife, African American writers who protested attacks on their communities, a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, and an art history professor who created a fictional town and a postmodern parody of the region’s stereotypes. The Literature of the Ozarks establishes a canon as nuanced and varied as the region’s writers themselves.


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