Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Entering the Middle Place
1. The Road to San Simon: Toward a Multicultural Ecocriticism
2. Abbey's Country: Desert Solitaire and the Trouble with Wilderness
3. Simon Oritz's Fight Back: Environmental Justice, Transformative Ecocriticism, and the Middle Place
4. Cultural Critique and Local Pedagogy: A Reading of Louise Erdrich's Tracks
5. And the Ground Spoke: Joy Harjo and the Struggle for a Land-Based Language
6. A Place to See: Self-Representation and Resistance in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead
7. Reinventing Nature: Leslie Marmon Silko's Critique of Euro-American "Nature Talk"
Conclusion: To San Simon and Back
Notes
Bibliography
Index