What Lies Beyond the Summit: The Future of Appalachian Ecocriticism Toward a Post-Appalachian Sense of Place / Zackary Vernon. Trailhead: Our Point of Origin. Perception and the Nature of Ethics: How to Learn about the Ethics of Place from Literature / M. Joseph Aloi -- Walking in Woods: Learning the Lay of the Land. Mountain Georgics: Appalachia and Everyday Nature / Ethan Mannon -- "The Grit of the Land Was in Them": A Post-Pastoral Reading of John Ehle's The Land Breakers / Savannah Paige Murray -- Deja Views: Familiar Terrain with New Vistas. "Lives Slip Away Like Waters": Drowned Communities in Rash's One Foot in Eden and Raising the Dead / Elisabeth Aiken -- "Little Porcelain Shepherds and Shepherdesses": The Female Pastoral Archetype and Version of the Appalachian Pastoral / Michael S. Martin -- The Nymph's Reply: Kathryn Stripling Byer and Pastoral Romance / Evan Gurney -- Uphill Both Ways: Struggle on the Sojourn. "This River of Crazy Women": Subversive Motherhood and the Affrilachian Landscape in Crystal Wilkinson's The Birds of Opulence / Cameron Williams Crawford -- An Ecofeminist Reading of Robert Gipe's Trampoline as Insight into Appalachian Oppression / Jessica Cory -- Hidden Gems: Finding the New in the Familiar. Ecosexuals in Appalachia: Identity, Community, and Counterdiscourse in Goodbye Gauley Mountain / Cynthia Belmont -- Seeing Queer Oddkin in The Prettiest Star's Appalachia / Caleb Pendygraft -- Trail Magic: Seeking Guidance Along the Journey -- Raven, Woman, Man: A/Religious Ecocritical Reading of Jim Minick's Fire Is Your Water / Theresa Burriss -- "Forest Christian," a Poet of the River Lands: Wendell Berry in Appalachia / Lucas Nossaman -- Conflict and Resolution: Eco-environmentalism in Charles Frazier's Antiwar Novel Cold Mountain / Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt -- A New Overlook: Seeing the Forest Beyond the Trees -- Wallace Stevens's "Anecdote of the Jar": Modernist Poetics and the Industrial Logging of the Great Appalachian Forest / Kevin E. O'Donnell -- A Sense of Place: The Rhododendron as Regional Identification on the Covers of Appalachian Local Color Literature / Stewart Plein -- What Lies Beyond the Summit: The Future of Appalachian Ecocriticism Toward a Post-Appalachian Sense of Place / Zackary Vernon.
Summary:
"Ecocriticism and Appalachian Studies continue to grow and thrive in academia, as they expand on their foundational works to move in new and exciting directions. When researching these areas separately, there is a wealth of information. However, when researching Appalachian ecocriticism, there is a clear disparity with Appalachian Ecocriticism and the Paradox of Place the only book-length scholarly collection of Appalachian ecocriticism. Appalachian Ecocriticism and the Paradox of Place is a collection of scholarly essays that engage environmental and ecocritical theories and Appalachian literature and film. These essays, many from well-established Appalachian Studies and Southern Studies scholars and ecocritics, engage with a variety of ecocritical methodologies including ecofeminism, ecospiritualism, queer ecocriticism, and materialist ecocriticism, just to name a few. Adding Appalachian voices to the larger ecocritical discourse is vital, not only for the sake of increased diversity, but also to allow those unfamiliar with the region and its works to better understand the Appalachian region in a critical and authentic way. Including Appalachia in the larger ecocritical community allows for the study of how the region, its issues, and its texts intersect with a variety of communities, opening up boundless possibilities for learning and analysis"-- Provided by publisher.
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