Open AccessMaritime Regionalism: A Reading of John Casey’s Novel Spartina
Author(s) -
Stipe Grgas
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
elope
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2386-0316
pISSN - 1581-8918
DOI - 10.4312/elope.3.1-2.183-192
Subject(s) - spartina , regionalism (politics) , the imaginary , polity , reading (process) , history , political science , marsh , law , ecology , psychoanalysis , psychology , wetland , politics , democracy , biology
The theoretical framework within which the author reads John Casey’s novel Spartina is the renewed interest in the notion of the regional. The choice of the novel is additionally dictated by the fact it deals with the sea. As such it allows the author to discuss the sea both as it is positioned within the American cultural imaginary and the way that it is represented in works of literature. The article delineates how these two themes are thematized in the novel and what kind of insights they can provide about certain aspects of the American polity