The Literature of the Ozarks An Anthology

Phillip Douglas Howerton, "The Literature of the Ozarks: An Anthology "
English | ISBN: 1682260844 | 2019 | 338 pages | EPUB | 1331 KB
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.