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Full-Text Articles in American Literature
Arts: Fiction And Fiction Writers: The Americas, Rachel Norman
Arts: Fiction And Fiction Writers: The Americas, Rachel Norman
Faculty Publications
This essay by Rachel Norman, which originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, discusses contemporary Muslim fiction published in the United States with a particular focus on three novels: Mojha Kahf's The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, Laila Halaby's Once in a Promised Land, and Randa Jarrar's A Map of Home.
Fire-Lookout Literature, Austin Schilling
Fire-Lookout Literature, Austin Schilling
2013 Projects
The Keck Summer Collaborative Research Program provides opportunities for Linfield College students and faculty to conduct research on issues related to the Pacific Northwest, and to bring the research findings back into the classroom within the subsequent academic year. Students partner with faculty to conduct research and present their work to other students, Linfield staff and faculty, and community members during a series of brown bag lunches. Austin Schilling conducted research with David Sumner and gave this presentation during the summer of 2013.
The Limits Of Violence: People And Property In Edward Abbey's "Monkeywrenching" Novels, David Thomas Sumner
The Limits Of Violence: People And Property In Edward Abbey's "Monkeywrenching" Novels, David Thomas Sumner
Faculty Publications
This paper explores Edward Abbey’s fiction asking what kind of ethical imperative his monkeywrenching novels offer. While advocating the destruction of property in defense of wilderness, The Monkey Wrench Gang draws a clear ethical distinction between the destruction of property in defense of wilderness and the harming of people. Yet the sequel, Hayduke Lives!, blurs this ethical line when a security guard is killed during the novel’s final eco-sabotage scene. After exploring several possible textual explanations for this apparent change and then interviewing several of Abbey’s close friends regarding this issue, the author concludes that the shift does not …
Location And Landscape In Literary Americanisms: H. L. Davis And F. Scott Fitzgerald, David T. Sumner
Location And Landscape In Literary Americanisms: H. L. Davis And F. Scott Fitzgerald, David T. Sumner
Faculty Publications
Well into the twentieth century, western American literature was still dismissed as regional or was boxed in by the genre expectations of pulp Westerns. This chapter focuses less on the causes of an eastern dismissal of western literature and more on what is unique about western literature, including how it reflects the larger western experience. Sumner looks at the particular Americanisms evident in the letters of the American West, using two short stories to make his argument: H. L. Davis’s Open Winter and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Babylon Revisited.
Testimony, Landscape And The West: A Conversation With Stephen Trimble, David Thomas Sumner
Testimony, Landscape And The West: A Conversation With Stephen Trimble, David Thomas Sumner
Faculty Publications
This interview with Stephen Trimble is part of a series of conversations with contemporary western writers about the ethical and cultural implications of nature writing.
Activism, Fly Fishing, And Fiction: A Conversation With David James Duncan, David Thomas Sumner
Activism, Fly Fishing, And Fiction: A Conversation With David James Duncan, David Thomas Sumner
Faculty Publications
This interview with David James Duncan is part of a series of conversations with contemporary western writers about the ethical and cultural implications of nature writing.
Testimony, Refuge, And The Sense Of Place: A Conversation With Terry Tempest Williams, David Thomas Sumner
Testimony, Refuge, And The Sense Of Place: A Conversation With Terry Tempest Williams, David Thomas Sumner
Faculty Publications
This interview with Terry Tempest Williams is part of a series of conversations with contemporary western writers about the ethical and cultural implications of nature writing.
Facts, Shapes, Our Relationship With The Landscape: A Conversation With David Quammen, David Thomas Sumner
Facts, Shapes, Our Relationship With The Landscape: A Conversation With David Quammen, David Thomas Sumner
Faculty Publications
This interview with David Quammen is part of a series of conversations with contemporary western writers about the ethical and cultural implications of nature writing.
Nature Writing, American Literature, And The Idea Of Community: A Conversation With Barry Lopez, David Thomas Sumner
Nature Writing, American Literature, And The Idea Of Community: A Conversation With Barry Lopez, David Thomas Sumner
Faculty Publications
This interview with Barry Lopez is part of a series of conversations with contemporary western writers about the ethical and cultural implications of nature writing.