The Pastoral Ideal and the Neoliberal City: Production of Nature in T.C. Boyle's The Tortilla Curtain.
This paper offers a spatially oriented reading of T.C. Boyle's modern classic, The Tortilla Curtain, through the lens of the production of nature concept. The novel, as the paper argues, contextualizes the pastoral ideal as an ideological mechanism in a neoliberal environment where nature is designe...
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=142709777&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 142709777 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 21483442 H6HI jtl: Monograf issn: 21483442 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2020 iid: 13 pid: 91209 pub: Monograf artinfo: ui: 142709777 ppf: 109 ppct: 25 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1.1MB tig: atl: The Pastoral Ideal and the Neoliberal City: Production of Nature in T.C. Boyle's The Tortilla Curtain. aug: au: Kara, Esen affil: Yaşar University, Department of English Language and Literature, Lecturer su: Boyle, T. Coraghessan, 1948- Property rights Urban planning Nature Tortillas Right to life (International law) Los Angeles (Calif.) sug: subj: Los Angeles (Calif.) Boyle, T. Coraghessan, 1948- Property rights Urban planning Nature Tortillas Right to life (International law) keyword: neoliberal city pastoral ideal production of nature T.C. Boyle urban literature doğanın üretimi kent edebiyatı neoliberal kent ab: This paper offers a spatially oriented reading of T.C. Boyle's modern classic, The Tortilla Curtain, through the lens of the production of nature concept. The novel, as the paper argues, contextualizes the pastoral ideal as an ideological mechanism in a neoliberal environment where nature is designed as an abstract and artificial notion, and produced as a fetishized commodity. The tension between nature and urban development crystallizes into several dichotomies in the narrative architecture, between human and animal, resident and squatter, private property and the right to life. The novel, in that sense, puts the classical liberal formulations of self-preservation and the right to private property into question, and traces the production of nature processes in the context of Los Angeles's neoliberal urbanization. Against forms of hegemonic spatial production and experience of nature, the narrative also stages moments of spatial resistance and maps out alternative ways of creative and spontaneous tactics towards alternative possibilities. Bu makale, T.C. Boyle'un modern klasiği The Tortilla Curtainın, doğanın üretimi kavramı aracılığıyla, mekan odaklı bir yakın okumasını önermektedir. Roman, makalenin öne sürdüğü üzere, neoliberal ortamda doğanın soyut ve yapay bir kavram olarak tasarlanıp fetiş haline getirilmiş bir meta olarak üretilme sürecini, ideolojik bir mekanizma olarak pastoral ideali bağlamına oturtur. Doğa ve kentsel gelişim arasındaki gerilim, anlatının yapısı içerisinde, insan ve hayvan, ev sahibi ve işgalci, özel mülkiyet ve yaşam hakkı arasındaki çatallaşmalar üzerine inşa edilir. Bu bağlamda roman, insanın öncelikli olarak kendini koruma ve özel mülkiyet hakları gibi klasik liberal düşünce öğelerini sorgular ve Los Angeles'ın neoliberal kentleşmesinde doğanın üretimi sürecinin izini sürer. Anlatı, aynı zamanda, hegemonik mekan üretimi ve doğa deneyimi biçimlerine karşı, çeşitli mekansal direniş anları kurgular ve alternatif olanaklara açılan yaratıcı ve spontan taktikler ortaya koyar. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Monograf is the property of Monograf and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Monograf holder: Monograf dt: @attributes: year: 2020 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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