Janet Galligani Casey

A New Heartland (eBook, ePUB)

Women, Modernity, and the Agrarian Ideal in America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Casey develops a complex and multi-faceted account of representations of rural women in literature, photography, periodicals, and other strands of U.S. culture in the first half of the twentieth century. She shows that attention to the position of rural women enriches and complicates our understanding of modernity. Such women are typically left out of debates about female experiences of modernity, accounts that are usually centered on urban experience; they are also sidelined in prevailing discussions of farming and rural life that center on men. The book unearths a rich history of representations of farm women that speaks to their ambivalent and often conflictual relationship to both tradition and modernity. Casey explains why rurality was such a compelling topic for women writers and artists and makes a strong case for the aesthetic and political complexity of representations of rural women's lives. Her argument has significant implications for both modernist studies and American studies. It breaks new ground in bringing accounts of rural life into explicit dialogue with theories of modernity, and in drawing attention to texts unearthed through Casey's extensive archival research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190623579
• Artikelnr.: 44752829

Autorenporträt

Casey is Visiting Associate Professor, English & American Studies, Skidmore College. Her first book, Dos Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine (Cambridge University Press, 1998) won the Modern Language Association's Prize for Independent Scholars.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Women, Modernity, Rurality
1: Critical Cartographies: Plotting Farm Women on the Cultural Map
2: The Farmer's Wife and The Farmer's Wife
3: Women, the Farm, and the Bestseller
4: Radical Ruralities
5: Rural Camera Work: Women and/in Photography
Epilogue: On Heartlands and Borderlands
Works Cited
Index