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Listening to the land : Native American literary responses to the landscape / Lee Schweninger.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2008.Description: x, 242 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780820330587 (alk. paper)
  • 0820330582 (alk. paper)
  • 9780820330594 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0820330590 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS153.I52 S38 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
The land ethic stereotype: American Indian wisdom -- Where the buffalo roam: Iconoclasts and Romantics -- Between the people and the land: Luther standing bear, Mother Earth, and assimilation -- Talking back: John Joseph Mathews and Talking to the moon -- "She gives me a metaphor": survival and Louise Erdrich's The blue jay's dance -- Cultural identity, storytelling, place: revision and return in Louis Owen's Wolfsong -- "From the land itself": Momaday's language, landscape, and land ethic -- Living with the land: Deloria, landscape, and religion -- Liberation and the land: the environmental ethos of Gerald Vizenor -- "Changed by the wild": Linda Hogan's spirit of renewal -- Killing the whale: sightings and the Makah hunt.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-232) and index.

The land ethic stereotype: American Indian wisdom -- Where the buffalo roam: Iconoclasts and Romantics -- Between the people and the land: Luther standing bear, Mother Earth, and assimilation -- Talking back: John Joseph Mathews and Talking to the moon -- "She gives me a metaphor": survival and Louise Erdrich's The blue jay's dance -- Cultural identity, storytelling, place: revision and return in Louis Owen's Wolfsong -- "From the land itself": Momaday's language, landscape, and land ethic -- Living with the land: Deloria, landscape, and religion -- Liberation and the land: the environmental ethos of Gerald Vizenor -- "Changed by the wild": Linda Hogan's spirit of renewal -- Killing the whale: sightings and the Makah hunt.