Memory, Nostalgia, and Gender in A Thousand Acres

TitleMemory, Nostalgia, and Gender in A Thousand Acres
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2002
AuthorsSinead McDermott
JournalSigns: Journal of Women in Culture & Society
Volume28
Issue1
Pagination389
ISSN00979740
Abstract

Investigates the uses of nostalgia for feminist discourse. Gendered values attached to the concept of nostalgia; Distinction that has been drawn between nostalgia and memory as ways of relating to the past; Argument that nostalgia needs to be recuperated as a politically valid strategy rather than dismissed as simply escapist; Examination of the novel 'A Thousand Acres,' by Jane Smiley.

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