Contributor
Steiner, Michael (Michael C.) author, editor of compilation.
Imprint:Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, c2013.
Descriptionxv, 399 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:Introduction : varieties of western American regionalism / Michael C. Steiner -- Revolution can spring up from the windy prairie as naturally as wheat : Meridel Le Sueur and the making of a radical regional tradition / Julia Mickenberg -- Feet in the grassroots : Josephine Herbst's Midwest / Sara Kosiba -- Radical regionalism in American art : the case of Joe Jones / Bryna R. Campbell -- Blowout grass : Mari Sandoz, historical pessimism, and Great Plains regionalism / Robert L. Dorman -- Radical by nature : Sanora Babb and ecological disaster on the High Plains, 1900-1940 / Douglas Wixson -- Theorizing regionalism and folklore from the left : B.A. Botkin, the Oklahoma Years, 1921-1939 / Jerrold Hirsch -- Discover the truth and publish it : Angie Elbertha Debo and the roots of America's real imperialism / Shirley A. Leckie Reed -- Texas, the transnational, and regionalism : J. Frank Dobie and Americo Paredes / Jose E. Limon -- Wrong side up : Joseph Kinsey Howard and the wisdom of the dispossessed / Timothy Lehman -- Bad medicine : D'Arcy McNickle locates liberalism and the left from a tribal perspective / William W. Bevis -- Robert Cantwell and Northwest left literary labors / T.V. Reed -- John Sanford's radical regionalism : the universal of the particular / Jack Mearns -- Toward a transnational liberalism of the left : positive liberties and the West in Carlos Bulosan's America / Stephen J. Mexal -- Regionalism and social protest during John Steinbeck's years of greatness, 1936-1939 / David Wrobel -- Carey McWilliams, California, and the education of a radical regionalist / Michael C. Steiner.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"Each of the books fifteen essays will treat regionalists and their thinking in a biographical context. Organized into four parts (Midwest, Great Plains, Northern West and California), the book will focus on such regional writers as Sanora Babb, B. A. Botkin, Angie Debo, Mari Sandoz, D'Arcy McNickle, Carey McWilliams, J. Frank Dobie, and others. Regionalism often has a reactionary outlook based in mostalgia for a bygone time. By contrast, these writer-intellectuals have, as one reader puts it,"offered a powerful critique" of historical and contemporary inequalities and social shortcomings even as they express a "deep affection for the place."" ---Provided by the publisher
