Greenwor(l)ds

Diana M.A. Relke is founding member and professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at the Univerisity of Saskatchewan. An interdisciplinist, her scholarly work has appeared in numerous collections and journals spanning the disciplines, from English literature through psychology to gender and cultural studies.

• PrefaceIntroduction: A Literary History of Nature1. A Poetic ConsciousnessDouble Voice, Single Vision: Ecopoetic Subjectivity and Margaret Atwood's The Journals of Susanna MoodieMother Nature, Daughter Culture: Marjorie PIckthall's Quest for Poetic IdentityNoble and Ignoble Savagery: Patriarchy and Primitivism in the Poetry of Constance Lindsay Skinner2. Ecological ConsiousnessThe Task of Poetic Meditation: Revisiting Dorothy Livesay's Early PoetryThe Ecological Vision of Isabella Valency Crawford: A Reading of Malcom's Katie"time is, the delta": Steveston in Historical and Ecological Context3. Ecocritical ConsciousnessFeminist Ecocritique as Forensic Archaeology: Digging in Critical Graveyards and Phyllis Webb's GardenTracing the Terrestrial in the Early Work of P.K. Page: A Feminist Psychoanalytic EcoreadingConfronting the Green Indian: Aboriginal Poetry and Canadian Literary TraditionRecovering the Body, Reclaiming the Land: Marilyn Dumont's Halfbreed PoeticAfterward: Does Nature Matter?EndnotesWorks CitedIndexAbout the Author

Greenwor(l)ds opens the door to a lively and important discussion of the place of ecocriticism in interpreting and recovering Canadian women's poetry. Anne Milne, Atlantis