The redemption of narrative : Terry Tempest Williams and her vision of the West / Jan Whitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitt, Jan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Williams, Terry Tempest--Criticism and interpretation.

Williams, Terry Tempest.

Environmental literature.

Animal rights activists.

Women naturalists.

Criticism and interpretation.

West (U.S.)--In literature.

West (U.S.).

Nature in literature.

Ecology in literature.

Spirituality in literature.

Environmentalism in literature.

Communities in literature.

Women naturalists--United States.

Animal rights activists--United States.

Environmental literature--United States--History and criticism.

Literature.

United States.

West United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvii, 254 pages ; 24cm

Other Title:

Terry Tempest Williams and her vision of the West

Place of Publication:

Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"Author and environmental activist Terry Tempest Williams argues that a lack of connection to the land is the direct result of our failure to care intimately about one another. From Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland (1984) to When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice (2012), her writing is born in the red-hot fires of contradiction. A Mormon and a believer in the power of women, an activist and a solitary writer, a student of science and a woman of faith, Williams celebrates paradox and lives both on the page and in the world. The first monograph to explore Williams's impressive and expanding literary canon, The Redemption of Narrative: Terry Tempest Williams and Her Vision of the West is divided into two sections. Part 1 compares Williams and poet and essayist Thomas Stearns Eliot, who share a personal belief system and a longing to find order and stability through language. Part 2 explores two of the literary communities to which Williams belongs, first, writers of creative nonfiction and literary journalism, and second, animal activists who advocate both for living things and for the planet that sustains them" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Literature and pilgrimage. "Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future": Refuge: an unnatural history of family and place; "In my beginning is my end": An unspoken hunger: stories from the field and When women were birds: fifty-four variations on voice; "I do not know much about gods": Desert quartet: an erotic landscape, Pieces of white shell: a journey to Navajoland, and Red: passion and patience in the desert

"Midwinter spring is its own season": Leap and Finding beauty in a broken world

Literature and community. Terry Tempest Williams and American literary journalism; Terry Tempest Williams and animal rights activism; An interview with Terry Tempest Williams

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780881463880

0881463884

OCLC:

945551233