Pastoral Amerika'yı ve eski güzel günlerin basit yollarını yeniden gözden geçirme: Richard Brautigan'ın kültürel kaçışı ve kimlik ile deneyi

Pastoral has been related to the ancient lands flooded with shepherds, bovines, and placid verdant veins of nature. Over the years, in this pastoral portrait, the shepherd figure has changed into an ordinary person seeking an escape from the urban cacophony that wounds the soul. The panacea for this wounded soul is nature, which can present an epicurean Theocritean pastoral, a glamorized Arcadia of Virgil, or the American pastoral dream that forges as a treatment for weary hearts that desires to be regenerated in the cornucopia of America. In this light, pastoral escapism is a reverie for a nascent form of life away from the gray constructed walls of urban that do not have a window opening to the warmth of nature. Henry David Thoreau and Earnest Hemingway escape from these gray walls and heal their wounded souls in the warm colors of the heart of nature. However, one might be stuck in these gray urban walls and might not escape in any scenario. This thesis scrutinizes Richard Brautigan's bleak journey for pastoral in A Confederate General from Big Sur, Trout Fishing in America, and In Watermelon Sugar. He endeavors to reach pastoral as the frontiersmen, tries to purify the Julia Kristevan "abject," and attempts to establish an Arcadia, but the dualism of urban and rural paralyzed, and urban re-emerges as Sigmund Freudian "uncanny." The postmodern world does not let Brautigan breathe in the pastoral realm; instead, it makes him suffocate in the sooty ambit of urban.