Description
Great Plains Literature is an exploration of influential literature of the Plains region in both the United States and Canada. It reflects the destruction of the culture of the first people who lived there, the attempts of settlers to conquer the land, and the tragic losses and successes of settlement that are still shaping our modern world of environmental threat, ethnic and racial hostilities, declining rural communities, and growing urban populations.
In addition to featuring writers such as Ole Edvart Rolvaag, Willa Cather, and John Neihardt, who address the epic stories of the past, Great Plains Literature also includes contemporary writers such as Louis Erdrich, Kent Haruf, Ted Kooser, Rilla Askew, N. Scott Momaday, and Margaret Laurence. This literature encompasses a history of courage and violence, aggrandizement and aggression, triumph and terror. It can help readers understand better how today's threats to the environment, clashes with Native people, struggling small towns, and rural migration to the cities reflect the same forces that were important in the past.
Author: Linda Ray Pratt
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 03/01/2018
Pages: 186
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.89h x 7.86w x 0.39d
ISBN13: 9780803290709
ISBN10: 0803290705
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American | General
- History | United States | State & Local | Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MO
- Literary Criticism | Canadian
About the Author
Linda Ray Pratt is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the former executive vice president and provost of the University of Nebraska system. She is the author of Matthew Arnold Revisited.