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03816aam a2200445 i 4500 001 0005ED1C5F0811ECA70E6FDD2BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211217010126 008 201201s2021 iauab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020046813 020 $a 1609387740 020 $a 9781609387747 035 $a (OCoLC)1227029998 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OBE $d OCLCQ $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS374.E38 $b W97 2021 100 1 $a Wyse, Lowell, $d 1981- $e author. 245 10 $a Ecospatiality : $b a place-based approach to American literature / $c Lowell Wyse. 264 1 $a Iowa City : $b University of Iowa Press, $c [2021] 300 $a viii, 259 pages : $b illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; $c 23 cm 490 1 $a The new American canon 520 $a Ecospatiality explores modern and contemporary American prose literature through the lens of place, showing how authors like William Least Heat-Moon, Willa Cather, Richard Wright, and Leslie Marmon Silko represent and reimagine real places in the world and the human-environment relationships therein. Building on the work of scholars in geography, sociology, ecocriticism, and geocriticism, this book articulates the theory of ecospatiality: an understanding of place as simultaneously spatial, ecological, and historical. In our current historical moment, which is characterized by ongoing ecological collapse and a not-unrelated increase in social disorder, few issues are more urgent than the human relationship with our environments. Whether we characterize this new epoch as the climate change era or the Anthropocene, we can no longer ignore the fact that the places we live are rapidly changing in response to economic and environmental pressures. Rather than thinking of place as a neutral site for social interaction, we should recognize how it underpins and intertwines with human experience. Fortunately, literature can help us think through how place operates. Lowell Wyse shows that texts can be understood as works of literary cartography. Focusing on works of nonfiction and fiction whose primary settings are on the North American continent, Ecospatiality demonstrates how these narratives rely on realistic literary geography to invoke, and sometimes retell, important aspects of environmental history within particular communities and bioregions. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Orientation : ecospatiality and literary criticism -- The production of place : William Least Heat-Moon's ecospatial literary cartography -- Ecospatiality at the crossroads : mapping central New Mexico in Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop, Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, and Ana Castillo's So Far from God --The world-brain and the watershed : the spatiality of John Steinbeck's environmental vision -- Plotting and reckoning : the geography of injustice in Richard Wright's Native Son. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Ecology in literature. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Geography in literature. 650 0 $a Space in literature. 650 0 $a Place (Philosophy) in literature. 650 7 $a American fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807048 650 7 $a Ecology in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901557 650 7 $a Geography in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00940561 650 7 $a Place (Philosophy) in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01064981 650 7 $a Space in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01904752 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a New American canon. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117013029.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0005ED1C5F0811ECA70E6FDD2BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search