At the core of this nuanced book is the question that ecocritics have been debating for decades: what is the relationship between aesthetics and activism, between art and community? By using a pastoral lens to examine ten fictional narratives that chronicle the dialogue between human culture and nonhuman nature on the Great Plains, Matthew Cella explores literary treatments of a succession of abrupt cultural transitions from the Euroamerican conquest of the Indian wilderness in the nineteenth century to the Buffalo Commons phenomenon in the twentieth. By charting the shifting meaning of...
At the core of this nuanced book is the question that ecocritics have been debating for decades: what is the relationship between aesthetics and a...
Proponents of the new regional history understand that regional identities are constructed and contested, multifarious and not monolithic, that they involve questions of dominance and power, and that their nature is inherently political. In this lively new book, writing in the spirit of these understandings, Kent Ryden engagingly examines works of American regional writing to show us how literary partisans of place create and recreate, attack and defend, argue over and dramatize the meaning and identity of their regions in the pages of their books.Cleverly drawing upon mathematical models...
Proponents of the new regional history understand that regional identities are constructed and contested, multifarious and not monolithic, that the...