Research Catalog

Title

Peregrinations : walking in American literature / Amy T. Hamilton.

Author

Hamilton, Amy T.

Publication

Reno, Nevada : University of Nevada Press, [2018]

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Details

Description

xi, 219 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• American literature
• Walking in literature
• American literature > History and criticism
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-200) and index.

Contents

Introduction : Walking at the Intersection of Literature and Materiality. A Brief and Partial History of Walking in the United States -- Material Ecocriticism -- Walking in American Literature -- Paths in the Wilderness : Walking Bodies and Material Agency in Early American Indian Captivity Narratives. Mary White Rowlandson's Pilgrimage Through Captivity -- Adventure and Social Critique in Sarah Wakefield's Captivity Narrative -- Captive Bodies and Trans-corporeal Ethics -- "By This Song I Walk" : Land, Movement, and Memory on the Navajo Long Walk. The Long Walk -- Walking and the Diné Worldview -- Diné Memories of the Long Walk -- The Long Walk in Contemporary Diné Poetry -- Walking and Survival in Diné Bikéyah -- Peripatetic Philosopher : Walking, Rhythm, and Material Nature in Mary Austin's Desert Writing. Euroamerican Nature Writing and Walking -- Indigenous Traditions and Austin's Philosophy of Rhythm -- The Land of Little Rain's Rhythmic Desert -- Knowing and Living with the Land -- Crossing the Storied Desert : Bodies on the Border in Luis Alberto Urrea's The Devil's Highway. Walking in Chicanx and Mexican Cultures -- Walking in the Borderlands in The Devil's Highway -- Bodily Suffering in the Material Desert -- Peregrinación as Symbol and Experience -- Aztlán and Border Legends as Alternative Ways of Knowing -- Reading and Writing the Land -- Walking Between Worlds : Material and Metaphorical Maps in Louise Erdrich's Novels. The General Allotment Act and Anishinaabe-akii (Anishinaabe Homeland) -- Roads and Paths : Centering the Margins -- Story Routes -- Epilogue : Walking for Survival.

Call Number

JFE 18-4702

ISBN

• 9781943859641
• 1943859647

LCCN

• 2017038765
• 40028319887

OCLC

1014012183

Author

Hamilton, Amy T., author.

Title

Peregrinations : walking in American literature / Amy T. Hamilton.

Publisher

Reno, Nevada : University of Nevada Press, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-200) and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Hamilton, Amy T. Peregrinations. Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2017] 9781943859658 (DLC) 2017057836

Other Standard Identifier

40028319887

Research Call Number

JFE 18-4702