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DeGenaro, William. |
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Youngstown State University. Criminal Justice Dept. |
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2011-01-31T14:20:37Z |
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2019-09-08T02:29:31Z |
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2011-01-31T14:20:37Z |
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2019-09-08T02:29:31Z |
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1998 |
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1998 |
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b18078989 |
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http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ysu997116409 |
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http://jupiter.ysu.edu/record=b1807898 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/1989/6343 |
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iii,76 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm. |
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Thesis (M.S.)--Youngstown State University, 1998. |
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dc.description |
Includes bibliographical references (leaves ). |
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dc.description.abstract |
In recent years, literary scholars have begun to distrust, challenge, and expand the
canon, which formerly limited students of literature to the study of dead, white, upperclass
male writers. In addition to contemporary writers, women writers and writers of
color, the academy has begun to study writers who come from and/or represent the causes
of the working-class. This sub-genre has served a tranformative, political function, and
scholars, aided by the writings of Marx, have rightly recognized the class and gender
issues that are often explicit in the texts. Another oppressed "other" is also present in
several important texts of working-class fiction and poetry: the environment. Much
working-class literature captures the abuse of the Earth, alongside the abuses of workers
and of women, and scholars of working-class studies have yet to explore this literary
territory. In this thesis, I propose an ecofeminist way of reading working-class literature
that recognizes this additional "other." An ecofeminist reading seeks to avoid setting up a
hierarchy of oppressions. As ecofeminist critic Patrick Murphy has noted, ecofeminism
places multiple abuses in the global context of the relationships human beings have with
the natural world. So I examine the ways nature is both oppressed and empowered in
working-class literature; how the authors portray the ecology alongside issues of class and
gender; and to the unique, sometimes contradictory ways nature is aligned with the
feminine. |
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dc.description.statementofresponsibility |
by William DeGenaro. |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Master's Theses no. 0603 |
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dc.subject.classification |
Master's Theses no. 0603 |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Theses (Master's) |
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dc.title |
The nature of working-class literature: an ecofeminist critique, / |
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Thesis |
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