Regional perspectives : an examination of America's literary heritage / by 326999 Burke, John Gordon

Straight from the Heartland: New Sincerity and the American Midwest by Daalder, J

“…Though regionalism’s subject matter, small-town America, is commonly believed to have died in the postwar period, it is this “death of the prairie town” and its symbolic afterlife that have opened up new literary possibilities outside the realm of conventional regionalism. …”

Gendered Geographies of the European East in the American Cold-War Literary Imaginary by Martyna Bryla

“…In the American Cold-War imaginary, the representation of Eastern Europe was strongly influenced by male intellectuals and writers from the region, whose works were celebrated in the US not only for their artistic merits but most of all for their political import. …”
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CIVIL WAR LITERATURE IN THE USA IN LITERARY CRITICISM by Liudmyla V. Pasko

“…The article analyzes the impact of the war between the North and the South on American literature and shows why this war was a different material for artistic representation than the American Revolution and the War for Independence. …”
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Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion by Craig Womack, Arnold Krupat, Lisa Brooks, Elvira Pulitano, Michael Elliott

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Local Color by Lucinda MacKethan

Subjects: “…African American Studies…”
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Orientalism in Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody by Maja Mugerle

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Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander by Elizabeth Alexander

Subjects: “…African American Studies…”
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El discurso literario caribeño, baluarte identitario de la cultura latinoamericana The Caribbean literary discourse, identity bholds of Latin American culture by Beatriz Goenaga Conde, Elsa Ronquillo Hernández

“…Since this literary discourse is based on an aesthetic ideal of deeply ontological roots, an approach to it means penetrating the essence of the region’s history and cultural patrimony. …”
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Constructing a New Regionality: Daphne Marlatt and Writing the West Coast by Michelle Hartley

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On Common Ground: Translocal Attachments and Transethnic Affiliations in Agha Shahid Ali’s and Arthur Sze’s Poetry of the American Southwest by Judith Rauscher

“…Engaging with landscapes of the American Southwest and elsewhere, and in particular with the natural environment, both poets reimagine the region as a site of translocal attachments and as the grounds for transethnic affiliations, especially with local Native American peoples. …”
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Elaine Goodale Eastman, Modernist Author? Re-visiting a Border-crossing Woman Writer’s Place in Literary History by Sarah RUFFING ROBBINS

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Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres by Lucinda MacKethan

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Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests: Literary Review and Recommendation for a Quality Assurance, Quality Control Algorithm by Michael J. Kavanaugh, Steven E. Azzam, David M. Rockabrand

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Literary writing and ideological debate in Mahua literary magazines in the early period of cold war (1950-1969) by Lai, Mooi Heong

“…The Cold War refers to both regional and international political situation in the post-World War II which lasted for 46 years. …”
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Surviving the Borderlands: Living Sin Fronteras, Being a Crossroads The Deperipheralization of the Chicano/a Cultural/Literary Space by Markéta Riebová

“…The following study deals with the evolution of the centre-periphery dynamics in Chicano/a cultural and literary space of the Mexican American borderland region. …”
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Reflections on Linguistic and Literary Colonization and Decolonization in Africa by Eric Sellin

“…From a political viewpoint, the acquisition of a European lingua-franca entailed such logistics of liberation as communication and collective identity which overrode regional and tribal differences. From a cultural viewpoint, the language which had been used to colonize the minds of Africans knew two phases: first, one of simple acquisition of both language and attendant literary forms and second, one in which the European language was warped or "bullied" to fit the author's African cultural impulses. …”
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The Inequities Embedded in Measures of Engagement in Science Education for African American Learners from a Culturally Relevant Science Pedagogy Lens by Tara Nkrumah

“…This article reports on a qualitative study of three African American female and male secondary science educators’ narratives of “engagement” in science amongst systemic inequities in the northeastern and southeastern U.S. regions. …”
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Transatlantica at Smolny: Old World–New World Literary Contacts by Andrey A. Astvatsaturov

“…The conference gathered scholars from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kazan, Rostov-on-Don – specialists in American literary history (T. Venediktova, O. Panova, A. …”
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The Middle Eastern novel in English: literary transnationalism after orientalism by Mattar, K

“…I'm particularly interested in the novel form, and in assessing how both translated Middle Eastern novels and anglophone novels by migrant writers engage with dominant Anglo-American discourses of politics, gender, and religion in the region. …”