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American Literature and the Identity Politics of Ecology
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The American wilderness narrative, which divides nature from culture, has remained remarkably persistent despite the rise of ecological science, which emphasizes interconnection between these spheres. Wild Abandon considers how ecology's interaction with radical politics of authenticity in the twentieth century has kept that narrative alive in altered form. As ecology gained political momentum in the 1960s and 1970s, many environmentalists combined it with ideas borrowed from psychoanalysis and a variety of identity-based social movements. The result was an identity politics of ecology that framed ecology itself as an authentic identity position repressed by cultural forms, including social differences and even selfhood. Through readings of texts by Edward Abbey, Simon Ortiz, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Jon Krakauer, among others, Alexander Menrisky argues that writers have both dramatized and critiqued this tendency, in the process undermining the concept of authenticity altogether and granting insight into alternative histories of identity and environment.

Author Biography:

Alexander Menrisky is a Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He teaches in the Department of English and Communication and the Honors College.
Release date NZ
December 17th, 2020
Pages
290
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
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Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
160x235x20
ISBN-13
9781108842563
Product ID
33746598

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