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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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Published in:Monograf no. 13; pp. 109 - 134
Main Author: Kara, Esen
Format: Article
Published: Monograf 2020
Subjects:
Boyle, T. Coraghessan, 1948-
Property rights
Urban planning
Nature
Tortillas
Right to life (International law)
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost