Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-206) and index.
Contents
Introduction : entering the middle place -- The road to San Simon : toward a multicultural ecocriticism -- Abbey's country : Desert solitaire and the trouble with wilderness -- Simon Ortiz's Fight back : environmental justice, transformative ecocriticism, and the middle place -- Cultural critique and local pedagogy : a reading of Louise Erdrich's Tracks -- And the ground spoke : Joy Harjo and the struggle for a land-based language -- A place to see : self-representation and resistance in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead -- Reinventing nature : Leslie Marmon Silko's critique of Euro-American "nature talk" -- Conclusion : to San Simon and back.