| Contents |
Gardens of auto parts : American western myth and Native American myth in The bean trees / Catherine Himmelwright -- To live deliberately : feminist theory in action in High tide in Tucson / Maureen Meharg Kentoff -- Women, a dark continent : The poisonwood bible as a feminist response to Conrad's Heart of darkness / Héloïse Meire -- Trauma and memory in Animal dreams / Sheryl Stevenson -- "Hemmed in" : place, disability, and maternity in Animal dreams and The poisonwood Bible / Breyan Strickler -- "Give me your hand" : accessibility, commitment, and the challenge of cliché in Kingsolver's poetry / Meagan Evans -- Wild Indians : Kingsolver's representation of native America / Robin Cohen -- The white imagination at work in Pigs in heaven / Jeanne Sokolowski -- Imagined geographies / Kristin J. Jacobson -- Earthbound rhetoric and praxis : authentic patriotism in a time of abstractions / Wes Berry -- Remembering our ecological place : environmental engagement in Kingsolver's nonfiction / Christine Cusick -- Contingency, cultivation, and choice : the garden ethic in Prodigal summer / Priscilla Leder -- Celebrating a lively earth : children, nature, and the role of mentors in Prodigal summer / Susan Hanson -- Together at the table : Animal, vegetable, miracle and Thoreau's Wild fruits / Gioia Woods. |
