U.S. & Canadian Poetry - 19th Century - Literary Criticism, Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, 20th Century American Literature - Post WWII - Literary Criticism, Women Authors - American (U.S.) - Literary Criticism, Literary Criticism - U.S. Fi
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Overview
From a perspective of ecofeminist theory, author Rachel Stein suggests that selected writings by Emily Dickinson, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Leslie Marmon Silko metaphorically revise American concepts of nature, gender, and race. Stein shows that by reinterpreting nature, these writers transform their characters from social objects into self-empowered subjects. 240 pp.Editorials
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Ecofeminist critic Stein (English, Siena College) examines how four diverse women authors<-->Emily Dickinson, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Leslie Marmo Silko<-->counter the conquest- oriented American mythos with their alternative vision of egalitarian interplay between nature, gender, and race. Each struggles for empowerment against an oppressive legacy: Victorian Puritanism for Dickinson ("Nature is a Haunted House"), African-American slavery for Hurston ("Tell My Horse") and Walker ("Meridian"), and Native Americans' displacement by white settlers for Silko ("Ceremony"). Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
November 30, 1997
Publisher
Charlottesville, Va. : University Press of Virginia, 1997.
Pages
183
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780813917412