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WHAT WILDNESS IS THIS
WOMEN WRITE ABOUT THE SOUTHWEST |
| By: |
Susan Wittig Albert (Editor), Susan Hanson (Editor), Jan Epton Seale (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£23.99 |
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£20.39 |
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£3.60 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0292716303 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780292716308 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2007 |
| Series: |
Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections at Texas State |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Synopsis: |
Winner, WILLA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction, 2008How do women experience the vast, arid, rugged land of the American Southwest? The Story Circle Network, a national organization dedicated to helping women write about their lives, posed this question, and nearly three hundred women responded with original pieces of writing that told true and meaningful stories of their personal experiences of the land. From this deep reservoir of writing-as well as from previously published work by writers including Joy Harjo, Denise Chavez, Diane Ackerman, Naomi Shihab Nye, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gloria Anzaldua, Terry Tempest Williams, and Barbara Kingsolver-the editors of this book have drawn nearly a hundred pieces that witness both to the ever-changing, ever-mysterious life of the natural world and to the vivid, creative, evolving lives of women interacting with it.Through prose, poetry, creative nonfiction, and memoir, the women in this anthology explore both the outer landscape of the Southwest and their own inner landscapes as women living on the land-the congruence of where they are and who they are. The editors have grouped the writings around eight evocative themes:The way we live on the landOur journeys through the landNature in citiesNature at riskNature that sustains usOur memories of the landOur kinship with the animal worldWhat we leave on the land when we are goneFrom the Gulf Coast of Texas to the Pacific Coast of California, and from the southern borderlands to the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, these intimate portraits of women's lives on the land powerfully demonstrate that nature writing is no longer the exclusive domain of men, that women bring unique and transformative perspectives to this genre. |
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US |
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University of Texas Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of WILLA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction 2008 (United States) |
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