Ecocriticism
Subtitle: creating self and place in environmental and American Indian literatures
By: Donelle N. Dreese.
Series: American Indian studies,; v. 15
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
Subjects: American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism; Environmental literature -- History and criticism; Indians of North America -- Intellectual life; American literature -- History and criticism; Environmental protection in literature; Environmental policy in literature; Wilderness areas in literature; Landscape in literature; Ecology in literature; Indians in literature; Nature in literature; Self in literature; Ecocriticism
Description: "Ecocriticism: Creating Self and Place in Environmental and American Indian Literatures studies twentieth-century poets and prose writers of diverse ethnicity who have attempted to recover a sense of home identity, community, and place in response to various forms of displacement caused by such forces as colonization, racial and sexual oppression, and environmental alienation.

Working from an ecocritical perspective that investigates "place" as inherent in configurations of the self and in the establishment of community and holistic well being, this book examines the centrality of landscape in writers who, either through mythic, psychic, or environmental channels, have identified a landscape or place as intrinsic to their own conceptualizations of self.

It also clarifies the territory where postcolonial and American studies intersect by investigating the literary decolonization efforts made by American Indian authors who are writing to reclaim their historical territories."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [117]-125) and index.