Back East: How Westerners Invented a Region

＂Weaving together overlapping networks of writers, defining and redefining the ever-shifting meanings of regions, and tracing the expanding space for the margin and the marginalized, Flannery Burke argues that regional identity and imagination shaped twentieth-century US culture more broadly and reflected the push and pull of American imperial myths crisscrossing in all directions throughout the nation＂-- Provided by publisher.

Flannery Burke is associate professor of history at Saint Louis University. She is author of A Land Apart: The Southwest and the Nation in the Twentieth Century and From Greenwich Village to Taos: Primitivism and Place at Mabel Dodge Luhan’s.