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Re-imagining nature's nation : Native American and Native Hawaiian literature, environment, and empire / Claudia Deetjen.

Title
Re-imagining nature's nation : Native American and Native Hawaiian literature, environment, and empire / Claudia Deetjen.
Author
Deetjen, Claudia
Publication
  • Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2016]
  • ©2016

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Description
236 pages; 22 cm.
Series Statement
American studies : a monograph series, 0178-1987 ; volume 267
Uniform Title
American studies (Munich, Germany) v. 267.
Alternative Title
Native American and Native Hawaiian literature, environment, and empire
Subject
  • American literature > History and criticism
  • Hawaiian literature > History and criticism
  • Environmentalism in literature
  • Imperialism in literature
  • Indians of North America > Intellectual life
  • United States > Literatures
Note
  • Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Osnabrück, 2013.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-236).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- Environment and empire. Postcolonial ecocriticism ; Environmental discourses and colonialism ; NaturalCultural contact zones -- The post-war Native American novel. The homing-plot novel as Red Power counter-pastoral ; Trickster earth: the postmodern Native American novel -- Counter-pastoral revisions. Leslie Marmon Silko: Gardens in the Dunes ; Kiana Davenport, Shark Dialogues -- (Re)Creating trickster earth. Gerald Vizenor, Dead Voices ; Diane Glancy, The Man Who Heard the Land -- Riding the trail of tears: Blake Hausman's Cyber Pastoral. (Re-)Creating a virtual 'motherland' ; "Like life itself": inhabiting virtual environments -- Conclusion.
ISBN
9783825365714
OCLC
940475984
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library