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Myth and Environment in Recent Southwestern Literature - Healing Narratives (Hardcover)
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Myth and Environment in Recent Southwestern Literature - Healing Narratives (Hardcover)
Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
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The romantic perception of the American Southwest as a wild and
dangerous frontier where heroic settlers prove their endurance has
often responded to a common human desire to escape from the
pressures of civilization and experience an "authentic"
relationship with nature. This idealized notion about life in the
Southwest, however, has contributed the subjugation of the
indigenous populations and the natural world while helping
rationalize the conquest of both. In Myth and Environment in Recent
Southwestern Literature, Theda Wrede brings contemporary
Southwestern American literature under the microscope to examine
the ways in which the mythic narrative has influenced attitudes
toward the land in the region. Focusing on popular novels by
Corrmac McCarthy, Barbara Kingsolver, Leslie Marmon Silko, and
Denise Chavez, Wrede explores the psychology behind the myth and
discusses the ways in which the four authors deploy the mythic
narrative, interrogate its validity, and offer visions for
alternative modes of inhabiting the Southwest. In combining ideas
from a culturally sensitive ecofeminist theory, psychoanalysis,
postcolonial studies, and literary studies, the study offers an
innovative conceptual framework for discussions about environmental
responsibility in the twenty-first century. Finally, it also
encourages its readers to partake in the process of mythogenesis by
imagining "sustainable" narratives to help rescue the promise of
the Southwest for the new millennium.
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