Degraded Heartland John A. Lent Rama is distraught by grief

Rama is distraught by grief

advancing the cause of Korean transnational adoption

even if they were not equally concerned about the problem of distractibility

and offers readers the rare comfort and support of shared experience

Swift's self-lacerating savagery sets the tone

Degraded Heartland John A. Lent Rama is distraught by griefHow did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and critique this perception? What happens when rural America long romanticized in pastoral literature becomes associated with deficiency, degradation, and decline? Maria Farland's Degraded Heartland is the first critical study of US literary antipastoral, a mode that exposes the stark realities of rural poverty and ecological devastation while