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Myth and environment in recent Southwestern literature

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Myth and Environment in Recent Southwestern Literature 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.

Title Myth and environment in recent Southwestern literature : healing narratives / Theda Wrede.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books
Creation Date 2014
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Myth and Contemporary Reappraisals of the Southwest
2 Renewal and Regression in Cormac McCarthy's Western All the Pretty Horses
3 Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams
4 "It's a Matter of Transitions"
5 Liminality in Denise Chávez's The Last of the Menu Girls
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index
About the Author
Series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Extent 1 online resource (143 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2014
National Library system number 997010711128705171
MARC RECORDS
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