Indians, Environment, and Identity on the Borders of American Literature From Faulkner and Morrison to Walker and Silko

by Smith, Lindsey Claire

• ISBN13: 9780230605411
• ISBN10: 0230605419
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The authors discussed in this book, including James Fenimore Cooper, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Leslie Marmon Silko, place this cross-cultural contact in nature, not only collapsing cultural and racial boundaries, but also complicating divisions between "wilderness" and "civilization."

Author Biography

Lindsey Claire Smith is Assistant Professor of English, Oklahoma State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Cross-Cultural Hybridity in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans	p. 7
Legacy of "Doom" on the Crossroads of William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha	p. 39
Indigenous "Rememory": Cultural Hybridity and the Nature of Resistance in the Novels of Toni Morrison	p. 75
Alice Walker's Eco-"Warriors"	p. 109
The Earth Remains: Place and Prophecy in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead	p. 145
Notes	p. 179
Works Cited	p. 183
Index	p. 193
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