American Indian literature, environmental justice, and ecocriticism : the middle place /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Adamson, Joni, 1958-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2001]
Subjects:	American literature > Indian authors > History and criticism. Environmental justice > United States. Environmental protection in literature. Wilderness areas in literature. Ecology in literature. Indians in literature. Nature in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: entering the middle place
The road to San Simon: toward a multicultural ecocriticism
Abbey's country: Desert solitaire and the trouble with wilderness
Simon Ortiz's Fight back: environmental justice, transformative ecocriticism, and the middle place
Cultural critique and local pedagogy: a reading of Louise Erdrich's Tracks
And the ground spoke: Joy Harjo and the struggle for a land-based language
A place to see: self-representation and resistance in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead
Reinventing nature: Leslie Marmon Silko's critique of Euro-American "nature talk"
Conclusion: to San Simon and back.