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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b10445034.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-179) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 183 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0813917417 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Charlottesville, Va. : University Press of Virginia,".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "810.9/9287 21".
- catalog subject "American literature Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Gender identity in literature.".
- catalog subject "Hurston, Zora Neale Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "National characteristics, American, in literature.".
- catalog subject "Nature in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS147 .S74 1997".
- catalog subject "Race in literature.".
- catalog subject "Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948- Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Silko, Leslie, 1948- Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Walker, Alice, 1944- Meridian.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents ""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.".
- catalog title "Shifting the ground : American women writers' revisions of nature, gender, and race / Rachel Stein.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".