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Comments on Regionalism and Ethnicity in American Literature
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 July 2009
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All the essays in this group are studies in American identity. They argue persuasively that regionalism and ethnicity are integral parts of what I can at this point only hesitantly call “mainstream” American self-definitions, be they literary, academic, intellectual, or popular. Werner Sollors' essay, really a phenomenological analysis of American thought about regionalism and ethnicity, exposes the structural analogues among intellectual, academic, and popular thought on these subjects. In his analysis of Styron, Jules Chametzky, on the other hand, suggests that the strategy of exchanging and appropriating regional and ethnic identities allows writers such as Styron both to legitimize marginal identities and to enter the mainstream. By implication, Chametzky's paper, like Sollors', is also concerned with structural relationships or exchanges between European high cultural forms and the popular domain.
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3. Quoted in ibid., p. 4.
4. Quoted in ibid., pp. 22–23.
5. Ibid., p. 25.
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