On Roots and Burial.

The article focuses on how metaphors of roots and burial reflect evolving relationships to ancestry, place, and death in an era shaped by globalization and ecological disruption. Topics include the symbolic and literal dislocation of familial roots, the environmental degradation of ancestral lands,...

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Published in:Substance: A Review of Theory & Literary Criticism Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 133 - 139
Main Author: Wampole, Christy
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2025
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