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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Comer, Krista. "Western Landscapes and the Politics of American Space: Reading the New Female Regionalism," American Civilization Program, Brown University, May 1996.
In the early 1970s, a new generation of feminist writers emerged whose topic—broadly defined—was the American West. My project conceptualizes this literary movement via the New Western women’s history, feminist literary criticism, postmodern geography, and the recent literature on nationalism. Because landscape is the signature of the Western geographic imaginary, I focus on the ways that writers use landscape representation to talk about the quality of female life in a postmodern era, racial history, the erotic, ecofeminism, and a feminist State. Writers include Didion, Wanda Coleman, Kingston, Silko, Kingsolver, Pam Houston, Erdrich, Cisneros, Jeanne Houston, Mary Clearman Blew, Anzaldúa.
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