Linda Ray Pratt

Great Plains Literature (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Great Plains Literature is an exploration of influential literature of the Plains region in both the United States and Canada. It reflects the destruction of the culture of the first people who lived there, the attempts of settlers to conquer the land, and the tragic losses and successes of settlement that are still shaping our modern world of environmental threat, ethnic and racial hostilities, declining rural communities, and growing urban populations. In addition to featuring writers such as Ole Edvart Rölvaag, Willa Cather, and John Neihardt, who address the epic stories of the past, Great Plains Literature also includes contemporary writers such as Louis Erdrich, Kent Haruf, Ted Kooser, Rilla Askew, N. Scott Momaday, and Margaret Laurence. This literature encompasses a history of courage and violence, aggrandizement and aggression, triumph and terror. It can help readers understand better how today's threats to the environment, clashes with Native people, struggling small towns, and rural migration to the cities reflect the same forces that were important in the past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bison Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496204806
• Artikelnr.: 54736862

Autorenporträt

Linda Ray Pratt is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the former executive vice president and provost of the University of Nebraska system. She is the author of Matthew Arnold Revisited.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Under Spacious Skies
2. Fencing In the First People
3. Taking the Land in Rölvaag’s Immigrant Saga
4. Cather and the End of the “West”
5. Dissent and the Great Depression
6. City Living on the Edge
7. The Circle toward Home
Appendix: Great Plains Literary Sites to Visit
Further Reading
Index