Indians, Environment, and Identity on the Borders of American Literature

From Faulkner and Morrison to Walker and Silko
2008. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-349-37290-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 268 g

Reihe: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

The authors discussed in this book, including James Fenimore Cooper, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Leslie Marmon Silko, place this cross-cultural contact in nature, not only collapsing cultural and racial boundaries, but also complicating divisions between 'wilderness' and 'civilization.'

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Cross-Cultural Hybridity in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans Legacy of 'Doom' on the Crossroads of William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha Indigenous 'Rememory': Cultural Hybridity and the Nature of Resistance in the Novels of Toni Morrison Alice Walker's Eco-"Warriors" The Earth Remains: Place and Prophecy in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead

Über Autor(innen)

LINDSEY CLAIRE SMITH is Assistant Professor of English at Oklahoma State University, USA.