The American Adrenaline Narrative considers the nature of perilous
outdoor adventure tales, their gendered biases, and how they
simultaneously promote and hinder ecological sustainability. To
explore these themes, Kristin J. Jacobson defines and compares
adrenaline narratives by a range of American authors published
after the first Earth Day in 1970, a time frame selected as a
watershed moment for the contemporary American environmental
movement. The forty-plus years since that day also mark the rise in
the popularity and marketing of many things as "extreme," including
sports, jobs, travel, beverages, gum, makeovers, laundry detergent,
and even the environmental movement itself. Jacobson maps the
American eco-imagination via adrenaline narratives, grounding them
in the traditional literary practice of close reading analysis and
in ecofeminism. She surveys a range of popular and lesser-known
primary texts by American authors, including best-selling books,
such as Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and Aron Ralston's Between a
Rock and a Hard Place, and lesser-known texts, such as Patricia C.
McCairen's Canyon Solitude, Eddy L. Harris's Mississippi Solo, and
Stacy Allison's Beyond the Limits. She also discusses such
narratives as they appear in print and online articles and
magazines, feature-length and short films, television shows,
amateur videos, social networking site posts, fiction, advertising,
and blogs. Jacobson contends that these stories constitute a
distinctive genre because - unlike traditional nature, travel, and
sports writing - adrenaline narratives sustain heightened risk or
the element of the "extreme" within a natural setting.
Additionally, these narratives provide important insight into the
American environmental imagination's connection to masculinity and
adventure - knowledge that helps us grasp the current climate
crisis and how narrative understanding provides a needed
intervention.
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