Re-Imagining Nature’s Nation

Native American and Native Hawaiian Literature, Environment, and Empire

by Claudia Deetjen

Book cover: Re-Imagining Nature’s Nation

Extent: 236 pages

Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter

Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies

Series: American Studies - A Monograph Series

Series volume number: 267

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(February 2016)

ISBN: 9783825365714

Price: $59.00

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This book looks at contemporary Native American and Native Hawaiian environmentally-oriented literature that critically engages with the environmental dimensions of imperialism and colonialism both in the past and in the present. Situated in the fields of Indigenous Studies and postcolonial ecocriticism, it explores how Native American authors N. Scott Momaday and Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, Diane Glancy and Blake Hausman as well as Native Hawaiian writer Kiana Davenport adapt Anglo-American forms of environmental writing in order to challenge discourses of the United States as ‘nature’s nation’ and make visible the profound transformations of American and world environments in the course of empires.

  • By (author) Claudia Deetjen