No. 40 (Summer 1997)
Contents
Regional American Literature
Regional American Literature: Introductionby Michael J. Bandler 3
A Literature of Place
by Barry Lopez 10
From Place to Place: Writers on the American Road
by Sven Birkerts 14
Voices from the Regions
by Michael J. Bandler 18
Wheredunit?
by Michael J. Bandler 21
Mark Twain: America’s Regional Original
by Henry B. Wonham 24
Illustrating Huckleberry Finn
by E.W. Kemble 30
Mark Twain in a Dilemma: A Victim of a Joke He Thinks the
Most Unkindest Cut of All 35
“Colored People”—Reminiscences of Home
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 37
Further Reading on Regional American Literature 42
Methodology
Understanding Regional Boundaries in the U.S.by Howard De Leeuw 46
Regions of the Continental United States 50
Today’s South in the EFL-Classroom
by Andreas Müller-Hartmann 51
News / Notes / Views
The Future of Publishingby Kushal Dave 56
Some Electronic Texts Available through Project Gutenberg 58
American Dreams & Discontents: Beyond the Level of the Playing Field
by Isabel V. Sawhill and Daniel P. McMurrer 59