American Local Color Writing, 1880-1920

Name: American Local Color Writing, 1880-1920
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ISBN: 9780140189995

ISBN-10: 0140189998

ISBN-13: 9780140189995

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Authors: Elizabeth Ammons, Valerie Rohy

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The era between the Civil War and the end of World War I, marked by increasing nation-building, immigration, internal migration, and racial tension in the United States, saw the rise of local color literature that described through "lived experiences" the peculiarities of regional life. This anthology brings together works from every part of the country, written by men and women of many cultures, ethnicities, ideologies, and literary styles.Organized geographically, American Local Color Writing features such familiar writers as Joel Chandler Harris, Kate Chopin, Hamlin Garland, and Sarah Orne Jewett, and introduces less well-known voices like Sui Sin Far, Abraham Cahan, and Zitkala-Sa. The…

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Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Language: English

Elizabeth Ammonsis Harriet H. Fay Professor of Literature at Tufts University. She is the author ofConflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth CenturyandEdith Whartonrsquo;s Argument with Americaand the editor of many volumes, including the Norton Critical EditionsofUncle Tomrsquo;s CabinandThe House of Mirth.

Introduction
Acknowledgments
South
From Nights with Uncle Remus (1883)	p. 4
Dave's Neckliss (1899)	p. 14
The Sheriff's Children (1899)	p. 26
The Praline Woman (1899)	p. 45
The Stones of the Village (1910-1920)	p. 47
The Story of an Hour (1894)	p. 71
The Storm (1898)	p. 74
The Dancin' Party at Harrison's Cove (1878)	p. 81
Midwest
Scrambled Eggs (1905)	p. 101
The Voice of the Rich Pudding (1907)	p. 122
Up the Coolly (1893)	p. 130
Pontiac's Lookout (1894)	p. 172
From The Fus Fixico Letters (1903-1905)	p. 192
From Mr. Dooley in Peace and War (1896)	p. 196
Hands (1919)	p. 202
Northeast
A New England Nun (1891)	p. 211
The Queen's Twin (1899)	p. 225
The Foreigner (1900)	p. 243
The Apostate of Chego-Chegg (1899)	p. 269
Talma Gordon (1900)	p. 290
Bro'r Abr'm Jimson's Wedding (1901)	p. 306
On Being Crazy (1907)	p. 322
West
An Ingenue of the Sierras (1893)	p. 327
Its Wavering Image (1912)	p. 345
The Wisdom of the New (1912)	p. 351
In a Far Country (1899)	p. 374
To the Man on Trail (1899)	p. 389
The Land of Little Rain (1903)	p. 400
The Soft-Hearted Sioux (1901)	p. 408
Iktomi and the Ducks (1901)	p. 415
The Vine-Leaf (1914)	p. 422
Explanatory Notes	p. 429
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