Adamson challenges complacency throughout her book. . . . a truly innovative study that should be in all academic collections." —Choice"Her persuasive and passionate arguments call her readers to awareness and responsibility." —ISLE"Powerful and immensely readable." —Folklore"Any reader, writer, or critic who supports the necessity of integrating multicultural understanding with environmentalism, who wants to understand the relationship of environment and justice in contemporary Native writing, and wants to learn more about the transformative potential of literature in community-based education needs to read this book very carefully. And they will no doubt enjoy themselves immensely in the process." —Patrick D. Murphy, author of Farther Afield in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature"In American Indian Literature, Enviornmental Justice, and Ecocriticism, narrative scholarship featuring the author's experiences among the people of Tohono O'odham nation furnish a powerful context for criticism that illuminates the complex and contested terrain of American Indian literature. Discussions of such writers as Simon Ortiz, Louise Erdich, Joy Harjo, and Leslie Marmon Silko take us beyond the stereotypes and into a richer understanding of the literature and its views of nature. American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism, with its original insights into environmental justice and American Indian literature, makes an important contribution to the expansion of ecocriticism." —Terrell F. Dixon

Adamson challenges complacency throughout her book. . . . a truly innovative study that should be in all academic collections." —Choice"Her persuasive and passionate arguments call her readers to awareness and responsibility." —ISLE"Powerful and immensely readable." —Folklore"Any reader, writer, or critic who supports the necessity of integrating multicultural understanding with environmentalism, who wants to understand the relationship of environment and justice in contemporary Native writing, and wants to learn more about the transformative potential of literature in community-based education needs to read this book very carefully. And they will no doubt enjoy themselves immensely in the process." —Patrick D. Murphy, author of Farther Afield in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature"In American Indian Literature, Enviornmental Justice, and Ecocriticism, narrative scholarship featuring the author's experiences among the people of Tohono O'odham nation furnish a powerful context for criticism that illuminates the complex and contested terrain of American Indian literature. Discussions of such writers as Simon Ortiz, Louise Erdich, Joy Harjo, and Leslie Marmon Silko take us beyond the stereotypes and into a richer understanding of the literature and its views of nature. American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism, with its original insights into environmental justice and American Indian literature, makes an important contribution to the expansion of ecocriticism." —Terrell F. Dixon

Adamson challenges complacency throughout her book. . . . a truly innovative study that should be in all academic collections." —Choice"Her persuasive and passionate arguments call her readers to awareness and responsibility." —ISLE"Powerful and immensely readable." —Folklore"Any reader, writer, or critic who supports the necessity of integrating multicultural understanding with environmentalism, who wants to understand the relationship of environment and justice in contemporary Native writing, and wants to learn more about the transformative potential of literature in community-based education needs to read this book very carefully. And they will no doubt enjoy themselves immensely in the process." —Patrick D. Murphy, author of Farther Afield in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature"In American Indian Literature, Enviornmental Justice, and Ecocriticism, narrative scholarship featuring the author's experiences among the people of Tohono O'odham nation furnish a powerful context for criticism that illuminates the complex and contested terrain of American Indian literature. Discussions of such writers as Simon Ortiz, Louise Erdich, Joy Harjo, and Leslie Marmon Silko take us beyond the stereotypes and into a richer understanding of the literature and its views of nature. American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism, with its original insights into environmental justice and American Indian literature, makes an important contribution to the expansion of ecocriticism." —Terrell F. Dixon