For the Love of the Land: Placing Appalachian Women Writers in a Conversation with Ecofeminist Principles
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- February 27, 2019
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Gunnells, Alexandra
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Women's and Gender Studies
- Abstract
- In this project, my goal is to understand the ways in which texts published by Appalachian women writers in the 1990s were engaging with ecofeminist principles. As I will discuss later in this introduction, ecofeminist principles were struggling to gain credibility at the end of the twentieth century; I argue that the Appalachian texts that I work with not only engaged in a dialogue with ecofeminist ideals, but ultimately advocated for them. The major contribution that I hope to make through this project is the linking of ecofeminist thought and Appalachian literature. There is a significant lack of scholarship regarding Appalachian literature, which I believe makes its connection with ecofeminist principles a unique one. Through understanding the relationship between these two concepts, I hope to open up a broader conversation on how literature can help us to understand ecofeminist and ecocritical thought.
- Date of publication
- spring 2015
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- Funding: None
- Advisor
- Shields, Tanya
- Degree
- Bachelor of Arts
- Honors level
- Highest Honors
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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