كتاب
Shifting the ground: American women writers' revisions of nature, gender, and race
| العنوان: | Shifting the ground: American women writers' revisions of nature, gender, and race |
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| المؤلفون: | Stein, Rachel. |
| بيانات النشر: | Charlottesville, Va. : University Press of Virginia, 1997. |
| سنة النشر: | 1997 |
| وصف مادي: | x, 183 p. ; 24 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism., National characteristics, American, in literature., Women and literature -- United States., Gender identity in literature., Nature in literature., Race in literature., Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Subject Person: | Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation., Silko, Leslie, 1948- -- Criticism and interpretation., Hurston, Zora Neale -- Criticism and interpretation., Walker, Alice, 1944- Meridian., Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948- -- Criticism and interpretation. |
| الوصف: | "In Shifting the Ground, Rachel Stein adds a feminist slant to the rapidly growing field of ecocriticism. Americans have historically defined themselves in terms of their conquest of "virgin land." Unfortunately, this identification has often proved disastrous to groups such as women, Native Americans, and African Americans, who were regarded as nature incarnate, part of the ground that must be mastered in the name of nation." "From a perspective of ecofeminist theory, Stein suggests that selected writings by Emily Dickinson, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Leslie Marmon Silko cannily revise intersections between American conceptions of nature and problematic formulations of gender and race. Writing from diverse social positions, each author examines a historical instance of this colonial conjunction: Dickinson grapples with the forces of Victorian Puritanism; Hurston interrogates Afro-Caribbean and African-American women's abuse as "beasts of burden"; Walker examines black mothers' struggles in the Jim Crow South as the legacy of their history as "chattel" slaves; and Silko treats the social ills of Native Americans as stemming from their objectification by white settlers."--Jacket. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | "Nature is a haunted house" : Emily Dickinson's reconstruction of nature and gender -- Rerooting the sacred tree : nature, Black women, and voodoo in Zora Neale Hurston's Tell my horse and Their eyes were watching God -- Returning to the sacred tree : Black women, nature and political resistance in Alice Walker's Meridian -- Contested ground : nature, narrative, and Native American identity in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Almanac of the dead. |
| Original Identifier: | ocm36499053 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-8139-1741-2 0-8139-1741-7 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-179) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.007560192.3 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780813917412 0813917417 |
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