Wild Abandon - American Literature and the Identity Politics of Ecology

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction. Modern Environmentalism's Identity Politics; 1. The Ecological Alternative: Civilization, Selfhood, and Environment in the 1960s; 2. The Entheogenic Landscape: Psychedelic Primitives, Ecological Indians, and the American Counterculture; 3. The Universal Wilderness: Race, Cultural Nationalism, and an Identity Politics for the State of Nature; 4. The Essential Ecosystem: Reproduction, Network, and Biological Reduction; 5. The Death of the Supertramp: Psychoanalytic Narratives and American Wilderness; Notes; Bibliography.

About the author

Alexander Menrisky is a Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He teaches in the Department of English and Communication and the Honors College.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Menrisky, Alexander (University of Massachusetts Menrisky, MENRISKY ALEXANDER
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781108842563
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84256-3
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, Environmental Economics, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Gender studies, gender groups, Literature: history and criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity