Autobiography, ecology, and the well-placed self the growth of natural biography in contemporary American life writing - Straight, Nathan; ebrary, Inc. (New York : Peter Lang, 2011)
"Who are we? where are we": self and place in dialogue -- Bearings from a broken center: William Kittredge's great basin reckonings -- Something in the water: Terry Tempest Williams' fluid subjectivity -- Pieced together: Mary Clearman Blew's collective identity -- Trading in the telescope: diverse narratives of the well-placed self -- Selected readings in natural biography.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Autobiography; Ecology in literature; Self in literature; Electronic books