A sense of place: Re-evaluating regionalism in Canadian and American writing

Copublished by: Textual Studies in Canada. Papers from a conference held in Edmonton, Oct. 13-15, 1995. Includes bibliographical references and index. "As a re-evaluation of regionalism in Canadian and American writing. A Sense of Place provides a comparative approach to the issue within a continental framework." "The contributors to this collection - including Frank Davey, Marjorie Pryse, and Jonathan Hart - look at a broad range of writers. They explore regionalism on both sides of the border in light of the central political, cultural, literary, and theoretical debates of our times."--BOOK JACKET CONTENTS - Introduction: Regionalism Revisited / Herb Wyile, Christian Riegel and Karen Overbye -- Toward the Ends of Regionalism / Frank Davey -- Writing Out of the Gap: Regionalism, Resistance, and Relational Reading / Marjorie Pryse -- "Regionalist" Fiction and the Problem of Cultural Knowledge / David Martin -- Reassessing Prairie Realism / Alison Calder -- West of "Woman," Or, Where No Man Has Gone Before: Geofeminism in Aritha Van Herk / W. M. Verhoeven -- Is Newfoundland Inside that T. V.?: Regionalism, Postmodernism, and Wayne Johnston's Human Amusements / Jeanette Lynes -- Magic Environmentalism: Writing/Logging (in) British Columbia / Richard Pickard -- Afterword: Sense of Place: A Response to Regionalism / Jonathan Hart.