Development History and Research Status of American Rural Literature
American rural literature has undergone the development longer than 100 years in the history of literature and once prospered.However,the mainstream discourse hegemony caused by modernity has always expelled rural literature,as the other of ur-ban literature into a persistent marginality.It is found that American rural literature has experienced four stages:germination,devel-opment,prosperity and ethical turn.Each stage displays different themes and artistic forms based on a specific social and historical context.The crisis of American modernity,coupled with the promotion of various western literary trends has attracted extensive at-tention of scholars to American rural literature in recent years.They have made fruitful research on it from the perspectives of femi-nism,modernity,spatial research and naturalism,etc.However,much work still needs to be done to achieve both depth and scope.Home consciousness,ecological ethics,community,and racial issues will be the focus of future research.
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