Autobiography, ecology, and the well-placed self
Subtitle: the growth of natural biography in contemporary American life writing
By: Nathan Straight
Series: Modern American literature: new approaches -- v. 59
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781433112256
Subjects: Autobiography; American prose literature; Self in literature; History and criticism; Ecology in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Who are we? where are we": self and place in dialogue; title: Bearings from a broken center: William Kittredge's great basin reckonings; title: Something in the water: Terry Tempest Williams' fluid subjectivity; title: Pieced together: Mary Clearman Blew's collective identity; title: Trading in the telescope: diverse narratives of the well-placed self; title: Selected readings in natural biography.