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January 30, 2013
More “Sense of Place”
by Greg Michalson
In the best fiction, cultural identity is often inseparably tied up in sense of place. Hence, the rather Southern notion of local color. We’re shaped by where we come from and where we’re going as much as by what we want and what we’re willing to give up to get it, and of course why (but the “why” is a post for some other day). That cultural identity is really the main, significant difference between, say, Garcia Marquez’s early real maravillosa and the decadence or decay of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County. And why the fresh promise of the New World and the rootlessness of Westward expansion gave rise to the oh so American penchant for continually reinventing oneself. And to one degree or another, that’s what gives us voice.
As readers, we see all that in our mind’s eye, or perhaps as importantly, hear it in the voices that give rise and authority to the dramatic tension that drives the story in most of the books you’ll find from Unbridled.
Try The Death of Fidel Perez, The Lighthouse Road, Abbeville, The Coffins of Little Hope, The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish, Hick, Sometimes We’re Always Real Same-Same, Stranger Here Below, The Bird Saviors . . . and you’ll see what I mean.
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