“She Moves Through Deep Corridors”

Mobility and Settler Colonialism in Sharon Doubiago’s Proletarian Eco-Epic Hard Country
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dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage115en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue1en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage133en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume11en_US
dc.contributor.authorRauscher, Judith
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-26T11:51:09Z
dc.date.available2022-10-26T11:51:09Z
dc.date.issued2020en_US
dc.description.abstractThis article analyzes Sharon Doubiago’s American long poem Hard Country (1982) from the joined perspectives of ecocriticism and mobility studies. It argues that Hard Country is a proletarian eco-epic that rethinks human-nature relations from a working-class perspective shaped by different kinds of (im)mobility. In my analysis, I show how the text revises the American epic tradition by foregrounding working-class people’s desire for meaningful relationships to place in light of histories of environmental injustice and displacement. Doubiago’s text promotes traditional place-based notions of belonging, but it also challenges ideas about what kind of sense of place can be environmentally suggestive. In doing so, it allows for the emergence of a proletarian “ecopoetics of mobility” (Gerhardt) that emphasizes the bodily experiences of Doubiago’s mobile narrator as well as U.S.-American histories and cultures of mobility. Among these cultures of mobility, settler colonialism stands out as a system of violent domination and form of environmental injustice (Whyte) that calls into question working-class people’s desire to move or settle on dispossessed indigenous lands. As such, settler colonialism poses a challenge to Doubiago’s proletarian ecopoetics of mobility, which must engage with the fact that white working-class people in the United States have always been perpetrators as well as victims of both environmental and mobility injustice.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.37536/ECOZONA.2020.11.1.3297
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2539
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.issn2171-9594en_US
dc.relation.journalEcozon@en_US
dc.relation.journalaltEuropean Journal of Literature, Culture and Environmenten_US
dc.rightsL::CC BY-NC 3.0en_US
dc.subject.ddcddc:810en_US
dc.subject.fieldamericanstudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldenvironmentalstudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldliterarystudiesen_US
dc.title“She Moves Through Deep Corridors”en_US
dc.title.alternativeMobility and Settler Colonialism in Sharon Doubiago’s Proletarian Eco-Epic Hard Countryen_US
dc.title.specialissueCuötures of Climate: On Bodies and Atmospheres in Modern Fictionen_US
dc.typearticleen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
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