Violet America: Regional Cosmopolitanism in U.S. Fiction Since the Great Depression

By Jason Arthur

Violet America takes on the long habit among literary historians and critics of thinking about large segments of American literary production in terms of regionalism or "local color" writing, thus marginalizing important literary works. Rather than simply celebrating regional difference, Jason Arthur argues, regional cosmopolitan fiction blends the nation's cultural polarities into a connected, interdependent America. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609381475
• ISBN13: 9781609381479
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"