Ethics of Alaska Travel Writing since 1959 : An Ecocritical Study /

Ethics of Alaska Travel Writing since 1959 : An Ecocritical Study /

This book digs into environmental themes in Alaska travel writing since U.S. statehood in 1959, drawing on the works of six authors including Barry Lopez, Jonathan Raban, Tom Lowenstein and others. Each work, though disparate in style, advocates for the empowerment of the Alaska Native people by con...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Ferguson, Benjamin (مؤلف)

التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني

اللغة: English

منشور في: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

سلاسل: Arctic Humanities ; 1.
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جدول المحتويات:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Peter Matthiessen's Oomingmak
  • 2 John McPhee ' s Coming into the Country
  • 3 Barry Lopez ' Arctic Dreams
  • 4 Tom Lowenstein's Ancient Land, Sacred Whale
  • 5 Jonathan Raban's Passage to Juneau
  • 6 Nancy Lord's Beluga Days
  • 7 Anglophone Travel Writing: From Mercantilism to the Enlightenment
  • 8 Anglo-Colonization, the Protestant Work Ethic, and the Last Frontier
  • 9 Jefferson versus Hamilton
  • 10 The Rise of Environmental Awareness
  • 11 Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, and John Muir
  • 12 Environmental Justice in Alaska
  • PART 1: Mapping the Ethical Fault Lines
  • 1 The McPhee Conundrum
  • 1 The Question of Manichaeism in Environmental Writing
  • 1.1 Encounters with the Archdruid
  • 1.2 Annals of the Former World
  • 1.3 Coming into the Country
  • 2 What Does John McPhee's Work Mean for Alaska?
  • 2 Masculinity v. Femininity
  • 1 Libby Beaman
  • 2 Margaret Murie
  • 3 Lois Crisler
  • 4 Ecofeminism in Alaskan Literature
  • 5 Nancy Lord
  • 3 Native Oral Tradition, Lack of Written Record, and Lack of Respect
  • 1 Attention to Language in Arctic Dreams
  • 2 Raban Evokes Wittgenstein, Importance of Names
  • 3 Tom Lowenstein and the Experiment of Translation
  • 4 Depictions of Alaskan Natives
  • 1 Raban's Conflicted Contribution to Native Peoples
  • 2 Nancy Lord's Sensible Objectivity with Regard to Natives
  • 3 Matthiessen's Sharp, Concise Reflections on Alaska Natives of Nunivak in Oomingmak
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 5 Religion and Spirituality
  • 1 Lord's Aesthetic Atheism
  • 2 Peter Matthiessen, the Missing Zen Master
  • 3 Tom Lowenstein, or, How Does Buddhism Relate to the Inuit?
  • 4 Wordsworth and Emerson, and their Descendants
  • 5 "The Native Eye" in Lopez and Lowenstein
  • 6 Conclusion
  • 6 Animals
  • 1 Animals Speak in the Work of Barry Lopez
  • 2 Nancy Lord is Made of Salmon
  • 3 Tom Lowenstein's Whales
  • 4 Matthiessen's Means of Animal Communication
  • 5 Do Animals Actually Speak in These Works?
  • 7 Liberty
  • 1 Raban's Fishermen
  • 2 McPhee's River People
  • 3 Lord's "Take One" Alaska Native Distrust of the White Man
  • PART 2: Writing beyond the Last Frontier
  • Introduction
  • 8 Perspective on Myopic Writing
  • 9 Psychological Issues and the Middle Way
  • 1 Introduction to Rationalization as a Social Construct, Linked with Political Journalism and Contemporary Academic History
  • 2 What in the World Can We Learn about the American Political Dichotomy from an Englishman?
  • 3 Attention to Language and Tone
  • 4 The Bloom and Lilla Controversies
  • 5 Community and (Toxic?) Masculinity: What Could John McPhee Do Better?
  • 6 Conundrum Conclusion, and a Pre-emptive Defense of the Middle Way
  • 10 Jon Krakauer, John Vaillant, and Dave Eggers: Different Approaches to Sensational Writing
  • 1 Sensational Non-Fiction
  • 11 "Local Travel Writing" in the Country, or Broadly Outside?
  • 1 What the Walt?.