Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-179) and index.
Contents:
"Nature is a haunted house" : Emily Dickinson's reconstruction of nature and gender -- Rerooting the sacred tree : nature, Black women, and voodoo in Zora Neale Hurston's Tell my horse and Their eyes were watching God -- Returning to the sacred tree : Black women, nature and political resistance in Alice Walker's Meridian -- Contested ground : nature, narrative, and Native American identity in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Almanac of the dead.
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