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05732aam a2200565 i 4500 001 1C72412C78F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220119010213 008 200630s2021 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020029380 020 $a 1108842569 020 $a 9781108842563 035 $a (OCoLC)1176323116 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d MUU $d OCLCO $d HUL $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS228.H84 $b M46 2021 082 00 $a 810.9/36 $2 23 100 1 $a Menrisky, Alexander, $e author. 245 10 $a Wild abandon : $b American literature and the identity politics of ecology / $c Alexander Menrisky. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2021. 300 $a viii, 254 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; $v [185] 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 500 $a Series numbering from publisher's web site, viewed August 20, 2021. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Modern environmentalism's identity politics. Ecological authenticity and the wilderness narrative -- The uses of dissolution -- A literary history of environmentalist identity politics -- The ecological alternative : civilization, selfhood, and environment in the 1960s. Selfhood and civilization : the new left and beyond -- The (in)authentic anarchist : the self in postwar environmental writing -- The spontaneous society : ecology and the politics of self-liberation -- "Feeling like a river" : Edward Abbey's subjective uncertainty -- Social ecology and psychoanalytic vocabulary -- The superficial self -- The entheogenic landscape: psychedelic primitives, ecological Indians, and the American counterculture. The countercultural psyche -- Peter Matthiessen's psychedelics of water, wind, and stone -- "The hallucinogenic oceans of the mind" from east to west -- Psychedelic primitivism's presymbolic myth -- Simon Ortiz, oral tradition, and environmental justice -- Narrative, self, and environment -- The universal wilderness : race, cultural nationalism, and an identity politics for the state of nature. The new universalism : environmentalism beyond natural rights -- Cultural nationalism and racial authenticity -- Racial particularity and ecological authenticity : a reflective stalemate -- Toni Morrison's skeptical state of nature : race, gender, and wilderness -- An admission of fabrication -- A brief comment on community and environment -- The essential ecosystem : reproduction, network, and biological reduction. Surfacing's identity crises : gender and nature in the 1970s -- Depth and nature feminism -- "The first true human" : narcissistic fantasy and material complexity -- Depth and network -- New materialisms, old narratives -- An appeal to obliteration -- The death of the supertramp : psychoanalytic narratives and American wilderness. Characterizing Chris McCandless -- Depth and deep ecology -- The ascetic superhero's boast -- Into the wild's Freudian narrative -- Fatal dissolutions -- The neoliberal wilderness -- Ecological consistency. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a American literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Human ecology in literature. 650 0 $a Identity politics in literature. 650 0 $a Environmentalism in literature. 650 0 $a Ecology in literature. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Psychoanalysis and literature $z United States. 650 7 $a American literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 650 7 $a Ecology in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901557 650 7 $a Environmentalism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01903139 650 7 $a Human ecology in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00962998 650 7 $a Identity politics in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01903558 650 7 $a Literature and society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000096 650 7 $a Psychoanalysis and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01081273 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Menrisky, Alexander. $t Wild abandon $d Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 $z 9781108909952 $w (DLC) 2020029381 830 0 $a Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; $v 185. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117015044.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1C72412C78F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search