Updike’s individualist suburban regionalism contrasts with Munif’s transnational collective vision

Evidence

Updike’s genealogical allegiances—and his affective preferences—are quite different: whatever else Updike’s novels contain, they eschew multitudes. His native terrain is the sparsely populated crabgrass frontier, where tumult takes the guise of (often almost inaudible) disturbances that rumble through suburbia. Updike’s regionalism is internal to the nation and his imagination contoured to a particular strip and social stratum of America’s northeast corridor, whereas Munif is a transnational regionalist whose imagination roams from Morocco to Iran. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 247

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to craft of the frontier novel and different regionalist visions; also to ch5/ch13 writer-activist as translator and the picaresque tradition. — connects to: Essentialized views of community overlook diaspora, hybridity, and members’ negotiated settlements and dissent — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 368; Exile sharpened Munif’s sense of resource wealth as squandered time — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 280

Broader Connections

• Essentialized views of community overlook diaspora, hybridity, and members’ negotiated settlements and dissent #expands (0.78) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 368
• Exile sharpened Munif’s sense of resource wealth as squandered time #expands (0.72) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 280