American Literature and Culture

Taking into account the material feminist theories of "agency," "matter," and "body," this essay examines to what extent material feminisms and trans-corporeality can be productive models for conceptualizing feminist ecocriticism, an anti-phallogocentric ecocritical theory that analyzes the complex dynamics of materia…

Transnationalism. Translocalism. Ecoglobalism. Ecocosmopolitalism. Posthumanism. Postcolonial Ecologies. Queer Ecology. Trans-corporeality. New Materialisms. Material Feminisms. 1 These are the new trends that noticeably characterize the current phase of ecocritical studies. They distinctively mark the field’s expansi…

How does a girl from Grundy, Virginia, become a successful writer? The interviews and profiles in Conversations with Lee Smith tell the story of one woman's discovery of her coal-mining hometown as a potential literary place. In this first book of interviews with Smith, she revels in character and sense of place as co…

John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, depicts the poverty of 1930s America during the “Great Depression” through the tragedy of the Joad family, who lost their home and land in Oklahoma and have to drive to California in the hope of finding employment and plenty like many other farmers. The no…

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Conflicts over citizenship and military service became a central issue in Italian-American relations in the early twentieth century. The United States and Italy founded their concepts of citizenship on two different bases,jus soliandjus sanguinis. As a consequence of this difference and the swelling number of Italian…

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İngiliz Psikanalistleri arasında yer alan ve Freud’un dürtü teorisinden etkilenen Melanie Klein (1882-1960), insanın kişilik yapısının, bebeklik/çocukluk çağında ilk olarak annesi ve sonrasında ailenin diğer bireyleri ile şekillendiğini ileri sürerek “nesne ilişkileri” kuramını ortaya koyar. Klein için nesne ilişkiler…

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With her unfaltering dedication to fight against patriarchal convictions in Victorian Britain, Augusta Webster (1837-1894) is featured as a groundbreaking activist poet who grapples steadfastly with the problems of gender discrimination and dualistic constructions of womanhood. At the center of Webster’s feminist agen…

Bu çalışma, Edith Wharton’un Ethan Frome isimli romanını on dokuzuncu yüzyıl Amerikan toplumunda kadınların geleneksel rollere sıkışıp kalmalarının yanı sıra erkeklere hizmet etmek üzere yetiştirildikleri ve yaşamlarını bir dizi kısıtlama ve beklentiler çerçevesinde geçirmek zorunda oluşlarının anlatıldığı bir eser ol…

• OLGAHAN BAKŞİ YALÇIN

Bu çalışma, dünya çapında romancılığıyla tanınan John Steinbeck’in (1902-1968) daha az bilinen gazeteci kimliğini ele almaktadır. Steinbeck, Büyük Buhran dönemi romanları başta olmak üzere kendisini üne kavuşturan eserlerini vermeden önce yıllarca çeşitli gazetelerde muhabirlik yapmış, edebi yeteneğiyle gazetecil…

Ecofeminism aims to establish a community ecology that is sustainable for both human and nonhuman beings, deconstructing the oppressor/oppressed identities that are prevalent in patriarchal society. Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson argue that throughout the history of the United States, the West was defined in terms of r…

Research Article| January 01 2022 Artifice of Love in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence Ayşe Naz Bulamur Ayşe Naz Bulamur Boğaziçi University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literary Realism (2022) 54 (2): 150–169. https://doi.org/10.5406/19405103.54.2.04 Cite Icon Cite Share Ico…