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Exploring lost borders : critical essays on Mary Austin

Title: Exploring lost borders : critical essays on Mary Austin / edited by Melody Graulich and Elizabeth Klimasmith.
Publication: Reno : University of Nevada Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Description

xxiv, 311 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"While many of Mary Austin's stories and essays have been compiled and a number of her novels reprinted, this is the first book-length collection of essays on her work. The editors have created a volume that covers the range of Austin's writing in varied genres - exploring both familiar texts and those which have until now received little critical attention and offering a variety of critical perspectives.
Some writers extend the established approaches to Austin's work, such as ecocriticism and feminist criticism. Others rethink and redefine the roles in which Austin has usually been cast, as "nature writer," "Western American writer," and social critic. Others read Austin within new theoretical frameworks such as consumer and postcolonial studies."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Western literature series

Uniform Title

Western literature series.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Contents

Introduction / Melody Graulich -- Ch. 1. At Cross Purposes: Church, State, and Sex in Mary Austin's Isidro / Nicole Tonkovich -- Ch. 2. Approaching the Imperialist Mirage: Mary Austin's Lost Borders / Kathryn DeZur -- Ch. 3. Ritual Drama/Dramatic Ritual: Austin's "Indian Plays" / Mark Hoyer -- Ch. 4. Singing Like the Indians Do: Mary Austin's Poetry / Dale Metcalfe -- Ch. 5. Serving Suspended Sentences: Mary Austin's Compositions and Explanations / Tara Hart -- Ch. 6. Between Worlds, Crossing Borders: Mary Austin, Liminality, and the Dilemma of Women's Creativity / Anna Carew-Miller -- Ch. 7. A Taste for Center Stage: Consumption and Feminism in A Woman of Genius / Elizabeth Klimasmith -- Ch. 8. Can the Subalter Ego Speak? Experiences Representing Mary Austin on the Chautauqua Circuit / Judy Nolte Temple -- Ch. 9. Mary Austin, I-Mary, and Mary-by-Herself: Collaboration in Earth Horizon / Linda K. Karell --
Ch. 10. Waters of Paradise: Utopia and Hydrology in The Land of Little Rain / Mark Schlenz -- Ch. 11. Mary Austin's The Land of Little Rain: Remembering the Coyote / Michelle Campbell Toohey -- Ch. 12. The Flock: An Ecocritical Look at Mary Austin's Sheep and John Muir's Hoofed Locusts / Barney Nelson -- Ch. 13. "The Man at the Sources": Gender, Capital, and the Conservationist Landscape in Mary Austin's The Ford / Anne Raine -- Ch. 14. Walking Off an Illness? Don't Go West, Young Man: The Construction of Masculinity in Cactus Thorn / Melody Graulich.

ISBN

0874173353 (alk. paper)

LCCN

99010485

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Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries