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"Take me home to Aunt Em!": Female Desire, Domesticity, and Nostalgia in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Panel: 
Gloomy Malaise? II: Re-evaluating Nostalgia and Sexuality in Literature and Cultural Studies
Abstract: 

This paper is part teaching case study, part literary analysis. It examines how L. Frank Baum’s rebellious, adventurous, desiring heroine challenges students’ conceptions of nostalgia as a longing for an idealized past.

Presenter Information
First Name: 
Erika
Last Name: 
Wright
Institution: 
University of Southern California