Refiguring the Map of Sorrow: Nature Writing and Autobiography

Refiguring the Map of Sorrow: Nature Writing and Autobiography
ISBN-10
0813920647
ISBN-13
9780813920641
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
213
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Authors
Mark Allister, Mark Christopher Allister

Description

Allister (English, St. Olaf College) examines works by six authors which fuse autobiography, literary nonfiction, and environmental literature into a distinct form of "grief narrative." Each of these authors "... begins in depression that shadows grief; each comes to put an end to depression, to move through mourning, by turning observations and stories of the external world into a narrative that heals." The six works featured are Sue Hubbell's A Country Year, Terry Tempest Williams' Refuge, Bill Barich's Laughing in the Hills, William Least Heat-Moons' Blue Highways, Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard, and Gretel Ehrlich's The Solace of Open Spaces. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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