...This chapter first traces the development of autobiography in the Western literary tradition in order to contextualise more fully the issue of writers whose origins lie outside this tradition, or who at least occupy, more or less uncomfortably, a space between two or more cultures. It then turns...

...This chapter talks about the countryside, which has often been idealised as an unspoiled space set apart from the problems of urban life throughout the Western literary tradition. It cites Raymond Williams's The Country and the City that drew attention to the artificiality...

... than O'Hara's ambivalent poems. His works simultaneously celebrate and try to jettison a series of intertwined values and concepts: avant-garde poetics, whiteness, Western literary tradition, and, as this chapter suggests, homosexuality. Baraka Amiri LeRoi Jones Beats the Black Mountain poets...

...This article looks at the history of pastoral literature. It examines some decisive moments in the growth and decline of pastoral in order to identify the characteristic attractions of a genre that was once a canonical element of the Western literary tradition and considers the reasons...