Indians, environment, and identity on the borders of American literature :
[Book]
from Faulkner and Morrison to Walker and Silko
Lindsey Claire Smith.
1st ed
New York
Palgrave Macmillan
2008
(196 pages)
American literature readings in the 21st century.
Cross-Cultural Hybridity in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans --;Legacy of Doom on the Crossroads of William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha --;Indigenous Rememory : Cultural Hybridity and the Nature of Resistance in the Novels of Toni Morrison --;Alice Walker's Eco-"Warriors" --;The Earth Remains: Place and Prophecy in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead.
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.'