자료유형  

 학위논문

Control Number  

0017165192

International Standard Book Number  

9798384045649

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

820

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Balachander, Surabhi.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

[S.l.] : University of Michigan., 2024

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024

Physical Description  

366 p.

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-03, Section: A.

General Note  

Advisor: Parrish, Susan Scott.

Dissertation Note  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2024.

Summary, Etc.  

요약Rewriting Rural America assesses representations of rural identity in American literature, illustrating how literature created and renegotiated national imaginaries of rurality even as "rural" became a minoritized identity in the twentieth and twenty-first century United States. I show that rurality is an identity formed relationally: in relation to other identities, especially racial identity; in relation to rural environments, including both humans and nonhumans in them; and, fundamentally, in relation to existing tropes and master narratives about rurality. My relational approach to rurality figures the rural as a distinct and crucial site in ethnic and environmental studies. Understanding rural America as multiethnic and understanding the particular ways nonhuman rural environments shape human identity, refigures normative notions not only of rurality, but also of larger American racial landscapes. By examining three literary "master narratives of rurality" in Chapter 1-Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird-alongside newer texts by writers of color, such as Linda Sue Park's Prairie Lotus, Helena Maria Viramontes's Under the Feet of Jesus, and Monique Truong's Bitter in the Mouth, that respond to these narratives, I show that literature is a crucial site not only for the study of rurality but for the creation of dominant narratives that structure rural life. The act of writing back to canonical texts that center whiteness demands the expansion of entrenched rural imaginaries.I organize each of the following chapters around a conceptual lens that brings together more specific themes in rural identity formation. The conceptual approach allows me to constellate analyses of multiple texts in each chapter, establishing a framework for understanding the multiethnic landscapes of rural America. Chapter 2, "Rural Time," considers representations of rural places as "backwards" or in decline, coming-of-age narratives as unsettling notions of "growing out" of rurality, attachments to seasonal temporality, and rurality as formed by transhistorical attachments. While rural areas are often figured as "behind the times," I argue with these formulations that a nonlinear and environmental sense of time instead characterizes rurality. Chapter 3, "Rural Space," considers rural space as necessarily multisensory, and rural identity as formed by attachments to multisensory and multispecies conception of rural environments. I also argue that rural space must be understood as translocal: spaces become rural in relation to other rural spaces and ideas of rurality on regional, national, and transnational scales. Chapter 4, "Rural Cosmopolitanism," chafes against the stereotype of rural areas as hopelessly provincial, arguing that the forced encounters that result from rural areas' capacity for contact across difference create extra-salient, uniquely rural cosmopolitanisms. Examining this idea through rural schools and rural immigration, I read scenes of cross-racial encounter and differentiate between aspirational rural cosmopolitanism, which looks towards global citizenship, and compulsory rural cosmopolitanism, which can be painful for marginalized subjects. Chapter 5, "Rural Comparison and Movement," considers the affordances of understanding rurality through the movement of rural people and ideas of rurality beyond rural places. The chapter primarily deals with literary texts that foreground a comparative grammar. I also consider the phenomenon of the "rural expatriate" writer. Authors considered in these chapters include, but are not limited to, Rudolfo Anaya, Percival Everett, Randall Kenan, Mas Masumoto, N. Scott Momaday, Ruth L. Ozeki, Jane Smiley, Mildred L. Taylor, Ocean Vuong, and Zitkala-Sa.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

American literature.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

American studies.

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American history.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Comparative literature.

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Rural America

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Environmental humanities

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Multiethnic American literature

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Rural identity

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Ethnic studies

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University of Michigan English Language & Literature

Host Item Entry  

Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-03A.

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