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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 July 2009
Originally the paper on which this article is based was entitled “The Cultural Politics of Southern and Jewish Writers” — which is a fine title and subject but, of course, much too broad, requiring book-length treatment for adequate development. If I were to write such a book, I would be concerned with the energies and strategies used by key writers representative of these groups (concerns I would consider paradigmatic for regional, ethnic, and other “marginal” phenomena in American culture) as they launched an assault on, infiltrated, charmed, or recast the mold and idea of the national literature.
Author's note: This article is based on a paper delivered at the American Studies Association Meeting, October 31, 1981, for a panel on Regionalism and Ethnicity in American Literature.
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