A Fast Journey from the Slow South: Mobility and Identity in Chris Offutt's The Good Brother

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

A Fast Journey from the Slow South: Mobility and Identity in Chris Offutt's The Good Brother

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The article focuses on the themes of mobility, migration, and identity in Chris Offutt's first novel The Good Brother, especially Appalachian people moving from their poverty-stricken homes to the West. It also deals with the spiritual journey of the novel's protagonist, whom family and community traditions pushed to avenge against his will the violent death of his brother, making him a fugitive with a new identity, forced out of his native region for the rest of his life. East Kentucky mountain communities are seen as Zygmunt Bauman's "communities of life and fate," whose members are looking for familiar life patterns and follow traditional rules and habits wherever they go, even in Montana, where the protagonist of the novel tries to start a new life. The article discusses the central paradox of the situation: to stay a member of the community, the protagonist must perform an act that makes him leave the community forever.

Název v anglickém jazyce

A Fast Journey from the Slow South: Mobility and Identity in Chris Offutt's The Good Brother

Popis výsledku anglicky

The article focuses on the themes of mobility, migration, and identity in Chris Offutt's first novel The Good Brother, especially Appalachian people moving from their poverty-stricken homes to the West. It also deals with the spiritual journey of the novel's protagonist, whom family and community traditions pushed to avenge against his will the violent death of his brother, making him a fugitive with a new identity, forced out of his native region for the rest of his life. East Kentucky mountain communities are seen as Zygmunt Bauman's "communities of life and fate," whose members are looking for familiar life patterns and follow traditional rules and habits wherever they go, even in Montana, where the protagonist of the novel tries to start a new life. The article discusses the central paradox of the situation: to stay a member of the community, the protagonist must perform an act that makes him leave the community forever.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

AJ - Písemnictví, mas–media, audiovize

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)

Rok uplatnění

2013

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

Unsteadily Marching On: The U.S. South in Motion

ISBN

978-84-370-9156-3

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

10

Strana od-do

215-224

Název nakladatele

Universitat de Val?ncia

Místo vydání

Val?ncia

Místo konání akce

Santiago de Compostela

Datum konání akce

14. 9. 2011

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

000328798300020