Indians, Environment, and Identity on the Borders of American Literature: From Faulkner and Morrison to Walker and Silko

by L. Smith

Overview

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.'

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230605411
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	09/26/2008
Series:	American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

"Smith s work is important as a new way to view Native American literature through the prism of earlier American literature. Smith s tactic of looking at very different authors from a single perspective is a novel approach and challenges much traditional scholarship. The research is timely and challenging." - Gretchen Bataille, President and Professor of English, University of North Texas

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