Midwestern literature / 
editor, Ronald Primeau. 
 - Ipswich, Massachusetts :  Amenia, NY :  Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services ;  Grey House Publishing,  2013 
 - xxvii, 255 pages ;  24 cm. 
 - Critical insights .
 - Critical insights. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-233) and index. 
<br/><br/>Midwestern literature in historical and cultural context / Marcia Noe -- What is "middlewestishness"? the evolution of Midwestern literary studies / Sara Kosiba -- Complicated grief, mourning and melancholia : reading the novel of Godfrey St. Peter's compounded losses in Willa Cather's The professor's house / Sarah Warren-Riley -- For those non-Midwestern, Midwestern writers : Richard Powers, Toni Morrison and the Midwest Topos / Patricia Oman -- Patricia Hampl, Minnesota and The florist's daughter : memoir as history / Marilyn Atlas -- Your homeland is where you live and where you work : changing Midwestern pastoral(ism) in Tomas Rivera's ... And the earth did not devour him / William Barillas -- "A place to fear and love" : the imagined heartland of David Foster Wallace's The broom of the system, Jurrit Daalder -- Performing Africa in the American Midwest : memories of Africa in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Song of Solomon / Maureen Eke -- It's heaven : sports literature and Iowa's pastoral image / Scott D. Emmert -- Big shoulders, cat feet : the Midwestern dimensions of Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems / Phillip A. Greasley -- Humor me, I'm from the Midwest : Mike Perry and the trope of poking fun at ourselves / Christian Knoeller -- "Figures in transmotion" : bison hunt narratives as Mise en Abyme in the native literatures of the American Midwest / Matthew Low -- In the heart of the land : Midwestern plays and playwrights / David Radavich -- "A discovered land" : Willa Cather's Pioneers John Rohrkemper -- Chicago and Peter DeVries' Map of desire / Guy Szuberla. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781619252165 1619252163 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014427407 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American literature--History and criticism.--Middle West<br/>Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Middle West.<br/>American literature--History and criticism.--Middle West<br/>Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Middle West.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Middle West--Intellectual life.<br/>Middle West--In literature.<br/>Middle West--In literature.<br/>Middle West--Intellectual life.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS 273  / .M53 2013