The Resource Nature's state : imagining Alaska as the last frontier, Susan Kollin
Nature's state : imagining Alaska as the last frontier, Susan Kollin
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- Summary
- 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 marginal space in American culture has in fact functioned to alleviate larger social anxieties about nature, ethnicity, and national identity. Kollin pays special attention to the ways in which concerns for the environment not only shaped understandings of Alaska, but also aided U.S. nation-building projects in the Far North from the late nineteenth century to the present era. Beginning in 1867, the year the United States purchased Alaska, a variety of literary and cultural texts helped position the region as a crucial staging ground for territorial struggles between native peoples, Russians, Canadians, and Americans. In showing how Alaska has functioned as a contested geography in the nation's spatial imagination, Kollin addresses writings by a wide range of figures, including early naturalists John Muir and Robert Marshall, contemporary nature writers Margaret Murie, John McPhee, and Barry Lopez, adventure writers Jack London and Jon Krakauer, and native authors Nora Dauenhauer, Robert Davis, and Mary TallMountain
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvi, 224 pages
- Contents
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- Inventing the last frontier
- The wild, wild north: nature writing, national ecologies, and Alaska
- Border fiction: frontier adventure and the literature of U.S. expansion in Canada
- domestic ecologies and the making of wilderness; white women, nature writing, and Alaska
- Beyond the whiteness of wilderness: Alaska native writers and environmental sovereignty
- Toward an environmental culutral studies
- Isbn
- 9780807849743
- Label
- Nature's state : imagining Alaska as the last frontier
- Title
- Nature's state
- Title remainder
- imagining Alaska as the last frontier
- Statement of responsibility
- Susan Kollin
- Subject
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- Alaska -- In literature
- American literature -- Alaska -- History and criticism
- Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Alaska
- Environmental protection -- Alaska -- Historiography
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Alaska
- Frontier and pioneer life in literature
- Natural history -- Alaska -- Historiography
- Nature in literature
- Alaska -- Historiography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 marginal space in American culture has in fact functioned to alleviate larger social anxieties about nature, ethnicity, and national identity. Kollin pays special attention to the ways in which concerns for the environment not only shaped understandings of Alaska, but also aided U.S. nation-building projects in the Far North from the late nineteenth century to the present era. Beginning in 1867, the year the United States purchased Alaska, a variety of literary and cultural texts helped position the region as a crucial staging ground for territorial struggles between native peoples, Russians, Canadians, and Americans. In showing how Alaska has functioned as a contested geography in the nation's spatial imagination, Kollin addresses writings by a wide range of figures, including early naturalists John Muir and Robert Marshall, contemporary nature writers Margaret Murie, John McPhee, and Barry Lopez, adventure writers Jack London and Jon Krakauer, and native authors Nora Dauenhauer, Robert Davis, and Mary TallMountain
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kollin, Susan
- Dewey number
- 810.9/32798
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS283.A4
- LC item number
- K65 2001
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Cultural studies of the United States
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- American literature
- Environmental protection
- Authors, American
- Natural history
- Frontier and pioneer life in literature
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Nature in literature
- Alaska
- Alaska
- Label
- Nature's state : imagining Alaska as the last frontier, Susan Kollin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-214) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Inventing the last frontier -- The wild, wild north: nature writing, national ecologies, and Alaska -- Border fiction: frontier adventure and the literature of U.S. expansion in Canada -- domestic ecologies and the making of wilderness; white women, nature writing, and Alaska -- Beyond the whiteness of wilderness: Alaska native writers and environmental sovereignty -- Toward an environmental culutral studies
- Control code
- 46505701
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 224 pages
- Isbn
- 9780807849743
- Isbn Type
- (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2001027414
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- Label
- Nature's state : imagining Alaska as the last frontier, Susan Kollin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-214) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Inventing the last frontier -- The wild, wild north: nature writing, national ecologies, and Alaska -- Border fiction: frontier adventure and the literature of U.S. expansion in Canada -- domestic ecologies and the making of wilderness; white women, nature writing, and Alaska -- Beyond the whiteness of wilderness: Alaska native writers and environmental sovereignty -- Toward an environmental culutral studies
- Control code
- 46505701
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 224 pages
- Isbn
- 9780807849743
- Isbn Type
- (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2001027414
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
Subject
- Alaska -- In literature
- American literature -- Alaska -- History and criticism
- Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Alaska
- Environmental protection -- Alaska -- Historiography
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Alaska
- Frontier and pioneer life in literature
- Natural history -- Alaska -- Historiography
- Nature in literature
- Alaska -- Historiography
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