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21. Mary Austin: Song of a Maverick
 
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22. I-Mary: A Biography of Mary Austin
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23. Dancing Ghosts: Native American
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24. Exploring Lost Borders: Critical
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25. Fast Cars and Bad Girls: Nomadic
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26. Reading The Trail: Exploring The
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27. The Wild and the Domestic : Animal

21. Mary Austin: Song of a Maverick
by Esther F. Lanigan
Paperback: 269 Pages (1997-02-01)
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Asin: 0816517142
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"This book seamlessly combines biography and criticism. [Lanigan] adeptly analyzes Austin's life...and also offers insightful analyses of Austin's writing.Like other females of her period, she received too little recognition for her original prose style and social critiques. Thanks to Song of a Maverick, we hear Mary Austin's voice more clearly and appreciatively."—Carol J. Singley in American Literature

"[Lanigan] provides illuminating sociological background and lucidly marshals the existing biolgraphical data."—Choice

"Mary Hunter Austin was a well-known and respected author and activitst in her lifetime but is little known in ours.In this excellent biography...[Lanigan] chose to focus on a few central relationships in Austin's life, to explore in some depth a few central texts, and to understand the interior life of her subject.She has done a splendid job."—Ann J. Lane in the Journal of American History ... Read more


22. I-Mary: A Biography of Mary Austin
by Augusta Fink
 Hardcover: 310 Pages (1983-04)
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Asin: 0816507899
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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'Before she was six, she knew there were two Marys. There was the lonely child without grace to please and win affection. And there was I-Mary, self-contained and secure, who had no need to be loved and could not be hurt.'

This was Mary Austin...feminist, mystic, Southwestern naturalist and environmentalist, author of 27 books and more than 250 short works. Conscious throughout her life of the duality of inner nature revealed to her as a child, she sought continually to reconcile her own insecurity with the confidence of her transcendental aspect, I-Mary.

Unloved in childhood and unfulfilled in marriage, Mary took inspiration from the land and found an audience for her writing through books like 'Land of Little Rain.' Her career carried her from California's Inyo country to Carmel and New York, Santa Fe and Europe. She traveled in circles that included such luminaries as Jack London, H.G. Wells, Lincoln Steffens, and the young Ansel Adams. She became known as a self-assured, even egocentric woman. Yet that public image belied an inner turmoil that never ceased.

This biography draws on Mary's personal papers and published works to weave a compelling story of frustration and accomplishment. 'I-Mary' goes to the root of the creative spirit, and brings us closer to understanding the true meaning of human achievement. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars I Mary
Being new to the life and times of Mary Austin, I found this book captivating.Credit goes to Augusta Fink for one of the finest biographies I have ever read. ... Read more


23. Dancing Ghosts: Native American And Christian Syncretism In Mary Austin'S Work (Western Literature Series)
by Mark T. Hoyer
Hardcover: 240 Pages (1998-09-01)
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Asin: 0874173124
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A significant and innovative contribution to Austin studies. ... Read more


24. Exploring Lost Borders: Critical Essays on Mary Austin (Western Literature Series)
Hardcover: 336 Pages (1999-08-15)
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Asin: 0874173353
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While many of Mary Austin's stories and essays have been compiled and a number of her novels reprinted, this is the first book-length collection of essays on her work. The editors have created a volume that covers the range of Austin's writing in varied genres-exploring both familiar texts and those which have until now received little critical attention and offering a variety of critical perspectives. Some writers extend the established approaches to Austin's work, such as ecocriticism and feminist criticism. Others rethink and redefine the roles in which Austin has usually been cast. Others read Austin within new theoretical frameworks such as consumer and postcolonial studies. As Graulich says, "Austin herself so resists categorization that most of her critics locate her at the intersection of a variety of perspectives." ... Read more


25. Fast Cars and Bad Girls: Nomadic Subjects and Women's Road Stories (Travel Writing Across the Disciplines: Theory and Pedagogy)
by Deborah Paes De Barros
Paperback: 208 Pages (2004-09)
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Asin: 0820470872
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In this brilliant study, Deborah Paes de Barros opens with a powerful analysis of the richness, complexity, and ambiguity of the tropes of travel, the road, frontier, the questing American hero, and the journey as symbolic of male power struggles to control space, time, and borders. Against this dominant male genre of the road novel, Fast Cars and Bad Girls reveals the ways that nomadic female road heroes in the works of women and minoritized writers from Mary Rowlandson to Paula Sharp challennge, resist, and disrupt the hegemonic, patriarchal order. By rejecting the rules of the road, boundaries, and genres, the women writers examined here create nomadic communities of lovers, children, and sisters bonded by love rather than by social conventions and gives us texts that expand the horizons of American fiction. This exciting book opens new territory for the study of American fiction.

Emory Elliott, University Professor, University of California, Riverside, Director, Center for Ideas & Society. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars An Engaging and Wonderful Read
Fast Cars and Bad Girls is both accessible and challenging.The author's obvious passion for her topic is transferred to both text and reader.Strongly recommended to anyone interested. ... Read more


26. Reading The Trail: Exploring The Literature And Natural History Of The California Crest (Environmental Arts and Humanities Series)
by Corey Lee Lewis
Paperback: 256 Pages (2005-02-15)
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Asin: 0874176069
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The work of three major California writers in the context of the landscapes they loved. John Muir, Mary Austin, and Gary Snyder are perhaps best known for their connection to specific California ecological regions--Muir’s Sierra Nevada "Range of Light," Austin’s southern "Land of Little Rain," and Snyder’s "Kitkitdizze" region of the north. In Reading the Trail, ecocritic and outdoorsman Corey Lewis proposes a provocative new way to read and interpret the classic works of these major nature writers and to bring their ideas into the discussion of ecological values and viable responses to the current environmental crisis.

The literary work of Muir, Austin, and Snyder reflects intimate and passionate knowledge of their chosen regions. Their activist efforts contributed to the preservation of wilderness areas and national parks in the ecosystems they lived in and wrote about. In Reading the Trail, Lewis combines a lucid, perceptive discussion of their work and ideas with an engaging, closely observed account of his own trail experiences as a hiker/backpacker and volunteer trail builder, thereby achieving a new and deeper appreciation of their writing and values. He proposes that such a combination of literary study and experiential projects allows teachers to enrich the understanding of students and lay readers to find new insights into the work of nature writers and the purpose and importance of the environmental movement. The book will be inspiring reading for both teachers of literature and natural science, and for lovers of the outdoors seeking new ways to explore the natural world. ... Read more


27. The Wild and the Domestic : Animal Representation, Ecocriticism, and Western American Literature
by Barney Nelson
Paperback: 200 Pages (2000-06-01)
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Asin: 0874173477
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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The Wild and the Domestic provides a challenging look atcurrent feminist criticism as well as ecocriticism and the burgeoningliterature of the environment. Barney Nelson, rancher, hunter, andlongtime environmentalist, is widely considered one of the mostoriginal and innovative scholars at work in the field today. Sheoffers unique views of the "domestic" qualities of many wild animalsas well as the wildness in domesticated species often witnessed bythose who live close to the land, as she and her family have forgenerations.

In this provocative work, Nelson focuses on the thought and work ofmajor environmentalists Mary Austin, John Muir, and Edward Abbey. AsNelson says, "Authors of animal stories appearing in both Americanliterature and environmental anti-grazing rhetoric havemelodramatically cast domestic animals as female Eden-wreckers andwild animals as male noble savages." This dichotomy influencedpolitical decisions that were destructive to Mary Austin's own ruralcommunity, located along the eastern flank of California's SierraNevada. The influence of Austin on environmental thinker John Muir hasbeen suggested but not investigated in real depth until now.

Nelson's reading of Edward Abbey's work through the lens of Austin'stheories and experiences reveals her surprising influence on anenvironmentalist held in disfavor by the ecofeminist critics. Nelson'sscholarly explorations in this beautifully written and sometimesstartling volume are vitally enhanced by several lively and thoughtfulpersonal essays concerning her own life on the land. ... Read more

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4-0 out of 5 stars effulgent effluvia of earth
It is not often, in my experience, one has the opportunity to say, "I read the most sharply fascinating book about cows this past weekend." Not that I said this sort of thing after reading this book, but I could have. Barney Nelson performs at minimum two premier services for her readers. First, she reopens the cow case, teasing into gray complexity the traditional assignation of cows to the realm of domestic beasts. Second, Nelson continues a rehabilitation of fame for the early twentieth century writer of the West, Mary Austin.(This rehabilitation comes at the expense of John Muir over the issue of sheep herding and lambing.) Truly, after reading this book I think it is curious that the remarkable Austin is in need of reputation refurbishment in American letters.

The glory continues with the author adding a raucously noble essay on her own life. Nelson also contributes a fine essay on Ed Abbey's reading and suggested usage of Mary Austin's desert book. At last, I mention the political concerns churned up by Nelson's hearty ploughing. Much about land management, grazing rights, and habitat change finds sensible reappraisal. I do not have the expertise or experience to evaluate the suggestions of the author on this matter, but I find her suggestion of interest, that the government policies based on the research programs of some scientists are quite possibly informed by an erring sense of healthy land use and a mistaken foundational origin for the data they interpret. Overall, this book of essays wafts thoughtful chips into the air with relatively little theoretical marsh.

3-0 out of 5 stars environmentalists ruin the west
This voice is loving if you're a horse, sheep, cow, dog, antelope, sheepherder, or cowperson. But, Goddess help you if you're a mountaineer, hiker, camper, easterner, urbanite, or Sierra Clubber.Perhaps John Muir does need some dethroning, but blame him for the industrialization of Yosemite National Park? Come now.

5-0 out of 5 stars Domestic vs. Wild -- some new ideas that INCLUDE women
Nelson is a creative thinker and fresh voice injecting new ways of looking at the environment, women's place in nature, and ultimately how to reconcile our dependence upon domestic livestock.By delving into works ofThoreau, John Muir, Jack London, Ed Abbey, and the lone female voice ofMary Austin, Nelson shows how our thinking about the wild, the domesticenvironment, and the place of men and women in both has been shaped byassumptions that are not true. I enjoyed this book very much--there arelots of new ideas to consider, as well as plenty of research to back upNelson's points.She writes clearly and smoothly, and is not afraid totackle ideas that westerners have misunderstood for too long, livestockgrazing for one. I was not at all familiar with the work of Mary Austin,but thanks to Nelson I can see that she should be widely studied for herenvironmental writings, particularly pertaining to women's role. All women,all environmentalists, all westerners, should read Nelson's book, it willbe the basis for many conversations, if not debates. ... Read more


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