Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 2: Dimensions of the Midwestern Literary Imagination
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The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film, comic strips, graphic novels, and environmental writing. Prepared by a team of scholars, this second volume of the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature is a comprehensive resource that demonstrates the Midwest's continuing cultural vitality and the stature and distinctiveness of its literature.
Crystal S. Anderson
Crystal S. Anderson is affiliate faculty in Korean studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages at George Mason University. She is author of Soul in Seoul: African American Popular Music and K-pop and Beyond “The Chinese Connection”: Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production, both published by University Press of Mississippi. Her work has appeared in African American Review, Ethnic Studies Review, and Extrapolation.
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