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minimalist story
main theme = searching for something that has been lost, for her child
(obsessive about the lost people), memory
bad memory is the best narrator = we do not know whether what she thinks
she knows is right
reader expects a solutions, but is annoyed that it does not come
something the most important thing is what NEVER happened
solitude and what it does to people, nostalgia
melancholic story
we donʼt know the timing - how old she is, how long ago it all was
REGIONALISM IN AMERICAN LITERATUREEudora Welty, Walker Percy, Ken Kesey, Denis Johnson, Bobbie Ann Mason,
Norman Maclean
The nine nations based on Nine Nations of North America by Joel Garreau
1981
The eleven nations based on American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival
Regional Cultures of North America 2011 by Colin Woodard
Look for the setting writers frequently use, e.g.
New York writers:
Scott Fitzgerland – The Beautiful and the Damned 1922, The Great
Gatsby 1925
John Dos Passos
Tom Wolfe
Paul Auster – The New York Trilogy 1987, The Brooklyn Follies 2005
Kathy Acker – Blood and Guts in High School 1984
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David Wojnarowicz
Don DeLillo – Falling Man 2007
Southern writers:
Eudora Welty – The Optimistʼs Daughter 1973
Fred Chappell
Walker Percy – The Moviegoer 1961
Cormac McCarthy – Suttree 1979
Regions and their writers
New York and New England F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Tom Wolfe,
Paul Auster, Kathy Acker, David Wojnarowicz, Don DeLillo, the Beat authors,
Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost
The South William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Erskine Caldwell, Walker Percy,
John Kennedy Toole, Flannery O'Connor, the Fugitive poets, Southern
Renaissance
The Midwest Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Carl
Sandburg
The West Gary Snyder, Ken Kesey, Raymond Carver, Wallace Stegner, Chuck
Palahniuk, Amy Tan
All-American Mark Twain, Walt Whitman
Ron Rashsouthern-appalachian mountains
famous for his novel Serena - translated in czech, Danish film (shot in CZ,
Kladno) - total flop
according to ARBEIT, he is one of the best living stort-stories writer
the world made straight - very successful film
collection of short stories -
Tobias Wolfff
Say Yes - minimalist story, Arbeit recommends to understand what minimalism
means
Percival Everett
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Damned if I do - about a problem with a controversial confederate flag (the
same as svastika in Europe - before Hitler, it was neutral)