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Author Wrede, Theda, author.

Title Myth and environment in recent Southwestern literature : healing narratives / Theda Wrede.

Publication Info. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Ecocritical theory and practice
Ecocritical theory and practice.
Note Includes index.
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.
Summary <Span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Myth and Environment in Recent Southwestern Literature</span><span> challenges readers' understanding of where the mythic Southwest and ecological consciousness meet. The book establishes conceptual connections between literature, ecocriticism, and feminist, postcolonial, and psychoanalytic theory to recover the creative imagination in redemptive figurations of the Southwest that may help foster environmental responsibility. </span></span>
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject American literature -- Southwestern States -- History and criticism.
American literature.
American literature -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism.
Myth in literature.
Myth in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Wrede, Theda. Myth and environment in recent Southwestern literature 9780739184950 (DLC) 2014008780 (OCoLC)870098178
ISBN 9780739184967 (electronic book)
0739184962 (electronic book)
1306675146 (e-book)
9781306675147 (e-book)
9780739184950
0739184954

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