Title: Myth and environment in recent Southwestern literature : healing narratives /
Authors: Wrede, Theda,
Year: 2014
Subjects: American literature Southwestern States History and criticism.; American literature West (U.S.) History and criticism; Myth in literature.
Contents: The myth and contemporary reappraisals of the Southwest -- Renewal and regression in Cormac McCarthy's western All the Pretty Horses -- Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams: ecofeminist subversion of western myth -- It's a matter of transitions: nature, self, and community in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony -- Liminality in Denise Chávez's The Last of the Menu Girls: mapping female landscapes on the border.