In this Book
- The Literature of the Ozarks: An Anthology
- Book
- 2019
- Published by: University of Arkansas Press
The job of regional literature is twofold: to explore and confront the culture from within, and to help define that culture for outsiders. Taken together, the two centuries of Ozarks literature collected in this ambitious anthology do just that. The fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama presented in The Literature of the Ozarks complicate assumptions about backwoods ignorance, debunk the pastoral myth, expand on the meaning of wilderness, and position the Ozarks as a crossroads of human experience with meaningful ties to national literary movements.
Among the authors presented here are an Osage priest, an early explorer from New York, a native-born farm wife, African American writers who protested attacks on their communities, a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, and an art history professor who created a fictional town and a postmodern parody of the region’s stereotypes.
The Literature of the Ozarks establishes a canon as nuanced and varied as the region’s writers themselves.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xviii
- Introduction
- pp. xix-xxx
- Part One. Beginnings to 1865: The Emergence of a Region
- One. Hlu-ah-wah-tah“
- pp. 9-12
- Two. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1821)
- pp. 13-17
- Three. Alphonso Wetmore (1837)
- pp. 18-28
- Part Two. 1865–1918: The Social Construction of a Regional Culture
- Introduction: 1865–1918
- pp. 49-54
- One. John Rollins Ridge (1868)
- pp. 55-59
- Two. Albert Pike (1872)
- pp. 60-62
- Three. John Monteith (1884)
- pp. 63-69
- Four. Minna Caroline Smith (1887)
- pp. 70-83
- Five. Rose Emmet Young (1903)
- pp. 84-89
- Six. Benjamin F. Adams (1906)
- pp. 90-93
- Seven. Harold Bell Wright (1907)
- pp. 94-98
- Part Three. 1918–1945: The Promotion of a Regional Image
- Introduction: 1918–1945
- pp. 101-105
- One. A. M. Haswell (1920)
- pp. 106-112
- Two. Murray Sheehan (1927)
- pp. 113-119
- Three. George Pool Ballard (1928)
- pp. 120-123
- Four. Ralph Alan McCanse (1931)
- pp. 124-132
- Five. Thames Williamson (1933)
- pp. 133-140
- Six. Vance Randolph (1933)
- pp. 141-145
- Seven. Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey (1934)
- pp. 146-148
- Eight. MacKinlay Kantor (1935)
- pp. 149-157
- Nine. Weldon Stone (1937)
- pp. 158-169
- Ten. Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni (1938)
- pp. 170-173
- Eleven. Dennis Murphy (1941)
- pp. 174-176
- Twelve. John Gould Fletcher (1941)
- pp. 177-180
- Thirteen. Irene Carlisle (1945)
- pp. 181-184
- Part Four. 1945–Current: The Deconstruction of a Regional Image
- Introduction: 1945–Current
- pp. 187-191
- One. Constance Wagner (1950)
- pp. 192-200
- Two. Robert A. Heinlein (1953)
- pp. 201-210
- Three. Wilson Rawls (1961)
- pp. 211-216
- Four. Edsel Ford (1961, 1968)
- pp. 217-219
- Five. Charles Morrow Wilson (1969)
- pp. 220-226
- Six. Frank Stanford (1974)
- pp. 227-230
- Seven. Miller Williams (1983)
- pp. 231-233
- Eight. Donald Harington (1988)
- pp. 234-246
- Nine. Katie Estill (2007)
- pp. 247-258
- Ten. Michael Mahoney (2008)
- pp. 259-267
- Eleven. Steve Wiegenstein (2012)
- pp. 268-278
- Twelve. Steve Yates (2013)
- pp. 279-293
- Thirteen. Daniel Woodrell (2013)
- pp. 294-302
- Fourteen. Christopher Crabtree
- pp. 303-305
- Fifteen. C. D. Albin (2016)
- pp. 306-318
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