Paolo Viganò

Control, Prohibition, and Censorship of Diversity in John Steinbeck’s The Pastures of Heaven

Abstract:This article examines John Steinbeck’s The Pastures of Heaven (1932) as a study of the mechanisms through which a rural settler community enforces conformity and suppresses diversity. Moving beyond existing readings that situate the collection within the American Gothic tradition, it argues that The Pastures o...