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- W137192692 abstract "A few months ago, an article entitled Farmer Sews up Quiet Retirement in my local newspaper arrested my attention. The article explained that this particular farmer had taken up sewing from the need to remain active after hip surgery and a heart condition had caused him to slow down. As a youngster, he had learned how to crochet, knit, sew, and embroider; but over the years of farming, he had not had time to continue. This article interested me for several reasons: as a male in mid-life whose father did not survive the emotional and physical strains of retirement, I am on the alert for examples of how men in America contend with their retirement; and, also, I am intrigued by the fact that a man taking up a traditional female art makes the news; but, most importantly for my purpose here, I am delighted to discover a lived experience of a symbolic act that I have come to see as both subversive and empowering in American literature. In using the pin to survive the sudden, sedentary wilderness of retirement, this farmer is performing a symbolic act akin to the classical American gesture of confronting an external wilderness with a gun and knife. In a sense, this farmer has brought together male and female stereotypical roles, an integration that suggests a relational ideal our critical approach to literature might profitably assume. As an Americanist, I have long been interested in defining symbolic American experiences and in the recent past have grown to concur with Judith Fetterley that the classic American themes and characters-particularly those growing out of the American frontier experiences-seem to dramatize the plight of the American male the feminine domestication of civilization. Fetterley's final comments on Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle could be generally applied to American literature; our literature, she says, has made the male's escaping her [the female] a national good, an American dream (Resisting Reader 11). While agreeing with Fetterley's analysis of representative works ranging from Irving to Norman Mailer, I know at the same time that the critical dilemma she defines cannot be solved by simply expanding the American literature canon with works by women. What I sense we need are stories about surviving within American civilization, not only ones about it. More importantly, we" @default.
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- W137192692 title "The Power of the Pin: Sewing as an Act of Rootedness in American Literature" @default.
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