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Rethinking Place Through Literary Form regards the relationship
between place and linguistic form as challenging real and perceived
configurations of place and renegotiating geopolitically determined
categories of the 'centre' and 'periphery'. The volume argues that
the rise of scattered communities, displaced physically and
psychologically by urban and alienated geographies, necessitates
linguistic negotiations of one's locatedness in place as the chief
means of uncovering and re-building identity. By looking at
narrative re-imaginings of forgotten and interrupted intimacies
between habitation and place from diverse parts of the world, the
twelve chapters address the growing need to expand and alter
approaches to literary representations of modernity and modes of
self-location.
Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement explores the
role of social and political engagement by women writers in the
development of American modernism. Examining a diverse array of
genres by both canonical modernists and underrepresented writers,
this collection uncovers an obscured strain of modernist activism.
Each chapter provides a detailed cultural and literary analysis,
revealing the ways in which modernists' politically and socially
engaged interventions shaped their writing. Considering issues such
as working class women's advocacy, educational reform, political
radicalism, and the global implications for American literary
production, this book examines the complexity of the relationship
between creating art and fostering social change. Ultimately, this
collection redefines the parameters of modernism while also
broadening the conception of social engagement to include both
readily acknowledged social movements as well as less recognizable
forms of advocacy for social change.
By the early twentieth century, as Woodrow Wilson would later
declare, the United States had become both the literal embodiment
of all the earth's peoples and a nation representing all other
nations and cultures through its ethnic and cultural diversity.
This idea of connection with all peoples, Nathaniel Cadle argues,
allowed American literary writers to circulate their work
internationally, in turn promoting American literature and also the
nation itself. Reexamining the relationship between Progressivism
and literary realism, Cadle demonstrates that the narratives
constructed by American writers asserted a more active role for the
United States in world affairs and helped to shift global influence
from Europe to North America. From the novels of Henry James,
William Dean Howells, and Abraham Cahan to the political and social
writings of Woodrow Wilson and W. E. B. Du Bois, Cadle identifies a
common global engagement through which realists and Progressives
articulated a stronger and more active cultural, political, and
social role for the United States.
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