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- catalog abstract "An engaging blend of environmental theory and literary studies, Nature's State looks behind the myth of Alaska as America's "last frontier," a pristine and wild place on the fringes of our geographical imagination. Susan Kollin traces how this seemingly marginal space in American culture has in fact functioned to alleviate larger social anxieties about nature, ethnicity, and national identity. Kollin pays special attention to the ways in which concerns for the environment not only shaped understandings of Alaska, but also aided U.S. nation-building projects in the Far North from the late nineteenth century to the present era. Beginning in 1867, the year the United States purchased Alaska, a variety of literary and cultural texts helped position the region as a crucial staging ground for territorial struggles between native peoples, Russians, Canadians, and Americans. In showing how Alaska has functioned as a contested geography in the nation's spatial imagination, Kollin addresses writings by a wide range of figures, including early naturalists John Muir and Robert Marshall, contemporary nature writers Margaret Murie, John McPhee, and Barry Lopez, adventure writers Jack London and Jon Krakauer, and native authors Nora Dauenhauer, Robert Davis, and Mary TallMountain.".
- catalog contributor b12305576.
- catalog coverage "Alaska Historiography.".
- catalog coverage "Alaska In literature.".
- catalog coverage "Alaska Intellectual life.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description "An engaging blend of environmental theory and literary studies, Nature's State looks behind the myth of Alaska as America's "last frontier," a pristine and wild place on the fringes of our geographical imagination. Susan Kollin traces how this seemingly marginal space in American culture has in fact functioned to alleviate larger social anxieties about nature, ethnicity, and national identity. Kollin pays special attention to the ways in which concerns for the environment not only shaped understandings of Alaska, but also aided U.S. nation-building projects in the Far North from the late nineteenth century to the present era. Beginning in 1867, the year the United States purchased Alaska, a variety of literary and cultural texts helped position the region as a crucial staging ground for territorial struggles between native peoples, Russians, Canadians, and Americans. In showing how Alaska has functioned as a contested geography in the nation's spatial imagination, Kollin addresses writings by a wide range of figures, including early naturalists John Muir and Robert Marshall, contemporary nature writers Margaret Murie, John McPhee, and Barry Lopez, adventure writers Jack London and Jon Krakauer, and native authors Nora Dauenhauer, Robert Davis, and Mary TallMountain.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-214) and index.".
- catalog description "Inventing the last frontier -- The wild, wild north: nature writing, national ecologies, and Alaska -- Border fiction: frontier adventure and the literature of U.S. expansion in Canada -- domestic ecologies and the making of wilderness; white women, nature writing, and Alaska -- Beyond the whiteness of wilderness: Alaska native writers and environmental sovereignty -- Toward an environmental culutral studies.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 224 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Nature's state.".
- catalog identifier "0807826456 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "080784974X (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Nature's state.".
- catalog isPartOf "Cultural studies of the United States".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Nature's state.".
- catalog spatial "Alaska Historiography.".
- catalog spatial "Alaska In literature.".
- catalog spatial "Alaska Intellectual life.".
- catalog spatial "Alaska".
- catalog spatial "Alaska.".
- catalog subject "810.9/32798 21".
- catalog subject "American literature Alaska History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Authors, American Homes and haunts Alaska.".
- catalog subject "Environmental protection Alaska Historiography.".
- catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life Alaska.".
- catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life in literature.".
- catalog subject "Natural history Alaska Historiography.".
- catalog subject "Nature in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS283.A4 K65 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Inventing the last frontier -- The wild, wild north: nature writing, national ecologies, and Alaska -- Border fiction: frontier adventure and the literature of U.S. expansion in Canada -- domestic ecologies and the making of wilderness; white women, nature writing, and Alaska -- Beyond the whiteness of wilderness: Alaska native writers and environmental sovereignty -- Toward an environmental culutral studies.".
- catalog title "Nature's state : imagining Alaska as the last frontier / Susan Kollin.".
- catalog type "text".