Taking its name from the subtitle of William Least Heat-Moon's PrairyErth (a deep map), the -deep-map- form of nonfiction and environmental writing defines an innovative and stratigraphic literary genre. Proposing that its roots can be found in Great Plains nonfiction writing, Susan Naramore Maher explores the many facets of this vital form of critique, exploration, and celebration that weaves together such elements of narrative as natural history, cultural history, geography, memoir, and intertextuality. Maher's Deep Map Country gives readers the first book-length study of the...
Taking its name from the subtitle of William Least Heat-Moon's PrairyErth (a deep map), the -deep-map- form of nonfiction and environmental wri...
In response to the growing scale and complexity of environmental threats, this volume collects articles, essays, personal narratives, and poems by more than forty authors in conversation about "thinking continental"-connecting local and personal landscapes to universal systems and processes-to articulate the concept of a global or planetary citizenship.
In response to the growing scale and complexity of environmental threats, this volume collects articles, essays, personal narratives, and poems by mor...
