...Drawing on an Internet survey sponsored by the National Geographic Society, this chapter explores the relationship between residential mobility and regionalism. It shows that literary regionalism is persisting, and that mobility itself is helping to reproduce it through the “cowbirds” that move...

...This chapter shows that literary regionalism flourishes only where there are both regional collective identity and institutional support. It attempts to sort out the claims of the experiential and institutionalist views by asking, can resource flows in and of themselves create and sustain...

.... Specifically, people use the very elements of globalized, electronic culture to rediscover, invent, fashion, promote, and celebrate their place-specific distinctiveness. Regional culture is part of this process, and this book demonstrates that literary regionalism has benefited from the developments that some...

...This chapter considers what exactly a place is and how people make one. It focuses on cultural expressions of place, both in the more passive form of regional culture and in the more assertive form of regionalism. It then turns to literature and the aesthetic structure of literary regionalism...

...This chapter looks at Italy, a country that presents a paradox: political, economic, and cultural regionalism are intense, yet literary regionalism is surprisingly weak. The Italian case reveals the types of structural and political filters that, despite favorable cultural conditions, can prevent...