INDIANS ENVIRONMENT AND IDENTITY - From Faulkner and Morrison to Walker and Silko

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.'

List 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

About the author

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

Summary

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.'

Additional text

"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

Product details

• Authors: L Smith, L. Smith
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349372904
• ISBN: 978-1-349-37290-4
• No. of pages: 205
• Series: American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century; American Literature Readings i; American Literature Readings in the 21st Century; American Literature Readings in the 21st Century; American Literature Readings i
• Subjects: Fiction; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; B, Fiction & related items, Fiction, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, America—Literatures, North American Literature