Harriette Simpson Arnow's ambivalent relationship to her native Appalachia and to her family is evident in the ambiguity of her literary work. The struggle between her love of the region and a need to be independent of and not defined by it is reflected in Arnow's choice of themes, her ambiguous endings, and her documentary style. Arnow's works reveal an experience of regionalism as a form of ethnic identity, one of many identities (American, writer, woman) and a fluidity to be negotiated rather than a reification by which to be marginalized.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UMASS/oai:scholarworks.umass.edu:dissertations-8671 |
| Date | 01 January 1993 |
| Creators | Haines, Charlotte Howard |
| Publisher | ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst |
| Source Sets | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Source | Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest |
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