Nature's State: Imagining Alaska as the Last FrontierUNC Press Books, 2001 - 224 էջ An engaging blend of environmental theory and literary studies, Nature's State looks behind the myth of Alaska as America's "last frontier," a pristine and wild place on the fringes of our geographical imagination. Susan Kollin traces how this seemingly m |
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Inventing the Last Frontier | 1 |
The Wild Wild North Nature Writing National Ecologies and Alaska | 23 |
Border Fictions Frontier Adventure and the Literature of US Expansion in Canada | 59 |
Domestic Ecologies and the Making of Wilderness White Women Nature Writing and Alaska | 91 |
Beyond the Whiteness of Wilderness Alaska Native Writers and Environmental Sovereignty | 127 |
Toward an Environmental Cultural Studies | 161 |
Notes | 179 |
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