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| Author | : Mark Athitakis |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017-02-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780997774283 |
In the public imagination, Midwestern literature has not evolved far beyond heartland laborers and hardscrabble immigrants of a century past. But as the region has changed, so, in many ways, has its fiction. In this book, the author explores how shifts in work, class, place, race, and culture has been reflected or ignored by novelists and short story writers. From Marilynne Robinson to Leon Forrest, Toni Morrison to Aleksandar Hemon, Bonnie Jo Campbell to Stewart O'Nan this book is a call to rethink the way we conceive Midwestern fiction, and one that is sure to prompt some new must-have additions to every reading list.
| Author | : Mark Athitakis |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 85 |
| Release | : 2017-02-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0997774355 |
In the public imagination, Midwestern literature has not evolved far beyond heartland laborers and hardscrabble immigrants of a century past. But as the region has changed, so, in many ways, has its fiction. In this book, the author explores how shifts in work, class, place, race, and culture has been reflected or ignored by novelists and short story writers. From Marilynne Robinson to Leon Forrest, Toni Morrison to Aleksandar Hemon, Bonnie Jo Campbell to Stewart O'Nan this book is a call to rethink the way we conceive Midwestern fiction, and one that is sure to prompt some new must-have additions to every reading list.
| Author | : Jason Lee Brown |
| Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
| Total Pages | : 303 |
| Release | : 2011-04-19 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0804011354 |
New Stories from the Midwest presents a collection of stories that celebrate an American region too often ignored in discussions about distinctive regional literature. The editors solicited nominations from more than three hundred magazines, literary journals, and small presses, and narrowed the selection to nineteen authors comprising prize winners and new and established authors. The stories, written by midwestern writers or focusing on the Midwest, demonstrate how the quality of fiction from and about the heart of the country rivals that of any other region. The anthology includes an introduction from Lee Martin and short fiction by emerging and established writers such as Rosellen Brown, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Christie Hodgen, Gregory Blake Smith, and Benjamin Percy.
| Author | : R. S. Fox |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 1983 |
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| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Jon K. Lauck |
| Publisher | : University of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 2018-11-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1496208811 |
In comparison to such regions as the South, the far West, and New England, the Midwest and its culture have been neglected both by scholars and by the popular press. Historians as well as literary and art critics tend not to examine the Midwest in depth in their academic work. And in the popular imagination, the Midwest has never really ascended to the level of the proud, literary South; the cultured, democratic Northeast; or the hip, innovative West Coast. Finding a New Midwestern History revives and identifies anew the Midwest as a field of study by promoting a diversity of viewpoints and lending legitimacy to a more in-depth, rigorous scholarly assessment of a large region of the United States that has largely been overlooked by scholars. The essays discuss facets of midwestern life worth examining more deeply, including history, religion, geography, art, race, culture, and politics, and are written by well-known scholars in the field such as Michael Allen, Jon Butler, and Nicole Etcheson.
| Author | : Jason Lee Brown |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2021-04 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781941561256 |
New Stories from the Midwest 2021, guest edited by Michael Martone, showcases ten stories from past volumes along with ten stories that are new to the series by authors such as Charles Baxter, Bonnie Jo Campbell, and Laura van den Berg.
| Author | : Ryan Elliott Smith |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2022-04-12 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781948954631 |
These compelling stories offer a detailed look at a part of the country many Americans only glimpse through an airplane window from 30,000 feet--the small towns of the rural Midwest. The characters here--struggling to raise children and build a better future, or just to escape their past; searching for connection on social media and longing for the glory days of youth, even as they put on pounds and lose hair; good citizens, and criminal--populate a landscape of emotional peaks and valleys far more varied and interesting than the flat physical terrain they inhabit. They are the people we've left behind when we moved to the city, or the people we've become. They are us.
| Author | : Phil Christman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2022-02 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781953368089 |
A virtuoso book-length essay on Midwestern identity and the future of the region
| Author | : Nicole Etcheson |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 1996-02-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780253329943 |
Nicole Etcheson examines the tensions between a developing Midwestern identity and residual regional loyalties, a process which mirrored the nation-building and national disintegration in the years between the Revolution and the Civil War.
| Author | : Norman Walzer |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 2016-07-08 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1315498391 |
The rural Midwest is undergoing fundamental changes with increased competition from foreign agriculture; employment shifts from higher-paying manufacturing to lower-paying service industries; the displacement of local small town business by large discount stores and shopping malls; overall population declines that threaten the viability of schools, hospitals, and other public institutions, along with an influx of minority groups that has led to strife in some communities. Using data from the 2000 Census, this collection examines the major demographic and employment trends in the rural Midwestern states with special attention to the issues that state and local policy makers must address in the near future. The contributors are well known experts in their fields, and in these original, previously unpublished materials they offer suggestions on how the Internet and other technological advances offer new opportunities for rural economies that local leaders can build on.
