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Gaining Ground: The Politics of Place and Space in U.S. Women's Literature and U.S. Culture, 1959-2001.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Gaining Ground: The Politics of Place and Space in U.S. Women's Literature and U.S. Culture, 1959-2001.
Author:	Wright, Kristina.
Description:	200 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-09, Section: A, page: .
Notes:	Adviser: Elizabeth Ammons.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-09A.
Subject:	Literature, Modern.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3460850
ISBN:	9781124733821

Gaining Ground: The Politics of Place and Space in U.S. Women's Literature and U.S. Culture, 1959-2001.
Wright, Kristina.

Gaining Ground: The Politics of Place and Space in U.S. Women's Literature and U.S. Culture, 1959-2001. - 200 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-09, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2011.

My study employs an interdisciplinary approach bridging the humanities and social sciences. It combines literary analysis, women's studies, environmental justice research, and cultural geography theory. I draw on this methodology to analyze U.S. literary, visual, and cultural narratives of place and space in the latter half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century to discover how these narratives impact eco-social injustice for marginalized groups, especially women of color. Specifically, I focus on texts by multicultural U.S. women writers working in a range of literary genres: Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (1959), Adrienne Rich's Your Native Land, Your Life (1986), Helena Maria Viramontes' Under the Feet of Jesus (1995), and Louise Erdrich's The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (2001). I argue that this literature exposes how mainstream narratives of place and space in the U.S., disseminated through the media, advertising, and other dominant cultural discourses, often elide social and environmental injustice for poor and working-class women of color.

ISBN: 9781124733821Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Literature, Modern.

Gaining Ground: The Politics of Place and Space in U.S. Women's Literature and U.S. Culture, 1959-2001.
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