Writing Out Of Place: Regionalism, Women, And American Literary Culture

In a series of sketches, regionalist writers such as Alice Cary, Sarah Orne Jewett, Grace King, and Sui Sin Far critique the approach to regional subjects characteristic of local color and create a countertradition of American writing whose narrator serve as cultural interpreters for persons often considered "out of place" by urban readers. Reclaiming the ground of "close" readings for texts that have been insufficiently read, "Writing Out of Place presents regionalism as a model for narrative connection between texts and readers and as a rich source of unconventional and counterhegemonic fictions.