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• ISBN: 0816517916 (acid-free paper)
• ISBN: 9780816517916 (acid-free paper)
• ISBN: 0816517924 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• ISBN: 9780816517923 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• Physical Description: xx, 213 p. ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2001.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-206) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: entering the middle place -- The road to San Simon: toward a multicultural ecocriticism -- Abbey's country: Desert solitaire and the trouble with wilderness -- Simon Ortiz's Fight back: environmental justice, transformative ecocriticism, and the middle place -- Cultural critique and local pedagogy: a reading of Louise Erdrich's Tracks -- And the ground spoke: Joy Harjo and the struggle for a land-based language -- A place to see: self-representation and resistance in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead -- Reinventing nature: Leslie Marmon Silko's critique of Euro-American "nature talk" -- Conclusion: to San Simon and back.

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Subject:

American literature > Indian authors > History and criticism.
Indians of North America > Intellectual life.
Environmental justice > United States.
Environmental protection in literature.
Wilderness areas in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Indians in literature.
Nature in literature.
Ecocriticism.
Letterkunde.
Amerikaans.
Indianen.
Milieubescherming.
Strafrechtelijk milieurecht.
Ecologische aspecten.