東華大學圖書館 |

語系: 繁體中文

說明(常見問題)

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

登入

回首頁

切換: 標籤 | MARC模式 | ISBD

Elements of Place: Southern Women Wr...

Bowlin, Catherine L.

FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Elements of Place: Southern Women Writers, Race, and Generational Environmental Knowledge.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Elements of Place: Southern Women Writers, Race, and Generational Environmental Knowledge./
作者:	Bowlin, Catherine L.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2024,
面頁冊數:	218 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-11B.
標題:	American literature. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30991004
ISBN:	9798382766997

Elements of Place: Southern Women Writers, Race, and Generational Environmental Knowledge.
Bowlin, Catherine L.

Elements of Place: Southern Women Writers, Race, and Generational Environmental Knowledge. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024 - 218 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2024.

Through a chronological and thematic study of twentieth and twenty-first century American literature, "Elements of Place: Southern Women Writers, Race, and Generational Environmental Knowledge" answers the following questions: how do Southern women writers represent elements of place? How is the natural world racialized, and how do African American writers portray Southern environments compared to White writers? I argue that because of the South's particularly violent racist history, Black Southern writers and their White contemporaries portray the natural world differently: the Black women writers I examine (Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Jesmyn Ward) focus on surviving natural disasters and racial oppression, whereas the White women with whom I engage (Flannery O'Connor and Janisse Ray) write more about environmental ethics and care. All these women write about the dissemination of environmental knowledge through three generations of Southern families. Through an intersectional ecofeminist framework, I examine how socially constructed boundaries-particularly those of gender, race, and class-influence perceptions of the natural world and how literary portrayals of nature reveal social and ecological injustices. Southern women-and especially Southern Black women-have unique cultural experiences when compared to women from other regions. Studying Southern women's environmental writing allows for a more comprehensive understanding of environmental movements, including how contemporary Southern women writers process the ongoing climate emergency. We can better understand the complexities of environmental issues by including Southern women's voices, especially since environmental justice concerns often disproportionately affect women and other marginalized groups.This project initiates new ways of thinking about Southern ecoliterary traditions, altering how we read Southern and environmental literature. By examining Southern women's environmental writing, readers better understand the nuance of how regionality affects environmental thinking, activism, and storytelling. My project offers a holistic approach to understanding the entanglements of Southern women, the natural world, race, class, and gender. While many important works critically analyze these topics, my research foregrounds specific elements of place, natural and built. Without analyzing an assemblage of elements of place, we obtain limited, often one-dimensional interpretations of women's relationships with the natural world. My analyses focus on specific elements of place to examine how social identity markers overlap and entangle, influencing Southern women's portrayals of nature and environments.

ISBN: 9798382766997Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Ecocriticism

Elements of Place: Southern Women Writers, Race, and Generational Environmental Knowledge.
LDR:03969nmm a2200421 4500 001 2401569
005 20241022110523.5
006 m o d
007 cr#unu||||||||
008 251215s2024 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9798382766997
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI30991004
035 $a AAI30991004
035 $a 2401569
040 $a MiAaPQ $c MiAaPQ
100 1 $a Bowlin, Catherine L. $0 (orcid)0000-0002-6144-0398 $3 3771667
245 1 0 $a Elements of Place: Southern Women Writers, Race, and Generational Environmental Knowledge.
260 1 $a Ann Arbor : $b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, $c 2024
300 $a 218 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: B.
500 $a Advisor: Kilcup, Karen L.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2024.
520 $a Through a chronological and thematic study of twentieth and twenty-first century American literature, "Elements of Place: Southern Women Writers, Race, and Generational Environmental Knowledge" answers the following questions: how do Southern women writers represent elements of place? How is the natural world racialized, and how do African American writers portray Southern environments compared to White writers? I argue that because of the South's particularly violent racist history, Black Southern writers and their White contemporaries portray the natural world differently: the Black women writers I examine (Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Jesmyn Ward) focus on surviving natural disasters and racial oppression, whereas the White women with whom I engage (Flannery O'Connor and Janisse Ray) write more about environmental ethics and care. All these women write about the dissemination of environmental knowledge through three generations of Southern families. Through an intersectional ecofeminist framework, I examine how socially constructed boundaries-particularly those of gender, race, and class-influence perceptions of the natural world and how literary portrayals of nature reveal social and ecological injustices. Southern women-and especially Southern Black women-have unique cultural experiences when compared to women from other regions. Studying Southern women's environmental writing allows for a more comprehensive understanding of environmental movements, including how contemporary Southern women writers process the ongoing climate emergency. We can better understand the complexities of environmental issues by including Southern women's voices, especially since environmental justice concerns often disproportionately affect women and other marginalized groups.This project initiates new ways of thinking about Southern ecoliterary traditions, altering how we read Southern and environmental literature. By examining Southern women's environmental writing, readers better understand the nuance of how regionality affects environmental thinking, activism, and storytelling. My project offers a holistic approach to understanding the entanglements of Southern women, the natural world, race, class, and gender. While many important works critically analyze these topics, my research foregrounds specific elements of place, natural and built. Without analyzing an assemblage of elements of place, we obtain limited, often one-dimensional interpretations of women's relationships with the natural world. My analyses focus on specific elements of place to examine how social identity markers overlap and entangle, influencing Southern women's portrayals of nature and environments.
590 $a School code: 0154.
650 4 $a American literature. $3 523234
650 4 $a Environmental justice. $3 528369
650 4 $a Environmental studies. $3 2122803
650 4 $a African American studies. $3 2122686
650 4 $a Womens studies. $3 2122688
653 $a Ecocriticism
653 $a Ecofeminism
653 $a Environmental writing
653 $a Southern studies
653 $a Southern women writers
690 $a 0591
690 $a 0619
690 $a 0477
690 $a 0453
690 $a 0296
710 2 $a The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. $b College of Arts & Sciences: English. $3 1024593
773 0 $t Dissertations Abstracts International $g 85-11B.
790 $a 0154
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2024
793 $a English
856 4 0 $u https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30991004