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Liang, Iping J. "The Lure of the Land: Ethnicity and Gender in Imagining America," American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September 1995.
This dissertation argues that the land, the physical and metaphysical, the lived and the perceived space that is referential to all constitutes a primeval experience - the imagination of America. If Anglo-Americans once envisioned a high virgin land on which to build a New World Garden, ethnic groups have their founding myths of America. This study deconstructs the myth of virgin land by contesting the issues of ethnicity and gender in imagining America. It investigates the images of Aztlan, la Mestiza, Harlem, the “house made of dawn,” and the Gold Mountain to surface the common ground of a mythic element in our imaginations of America. It emphasizes the ethnic woman’s need to carve out the “land before her” in both racial and gender terms. Mostly this work lands on a common ground by illuminating from various angles the lure of the land.
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