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An Ecocritical and Ecofeminist Approach to American Literature 
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Posted by CarltonPatricia on Apr 15, 2011 09:28PM
Jay Jay,
I am unfamiliar with this area of study and found your annotations and selections informative and inspiring. The article by Mock, "Woman, Nature, and the White Plague: Rebecca Harding Davis's "The Yares of the Black Mountains: A True Story" was an interesting ethnographic addition to your scholarly article and I enjoyed reading the emphatic prose, "withered corpses" and "mat woven of warblers' heads spiked all over its surface with sharp beaks, set upon a bonnet and borne aloft by its possessor in pride."
You also were able to use the conventions and functions of the exhibit with evident skill.
I am unfamiliar with this area of study and found your annotations and selections informative and inspiring. The article by Mock, "Woman, Nature, and the White Plague: Rebecca Harding Davis's "The Yares of the Black Mountains: A True Story" was an interesting ethnographic addition to your scholarly article and I enjoyed reading the emphatic prose, "withered corpses" and "mat woven of warblers' heads spiked all over its surface with sharp beaks, set upon a bonnet and borne aloft by its possessor in pride."
You also were able to use the conventions and functions of the exhibit with evident skill.
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Posted by Jay Jay Stroup on Apr 17, 2011 03:29PM
Tricia,
Thank you for your kind words! I actually had a lot of fun putting the exhibit together, and I definitely plan on adding to the exhibit this summer as I work my way through my independent study on American EcoFeminism. I had never heard of Rebecca Harding Davis, but I want to track down her short essay/story after reading through Mock's article. I'm finding that what draws me to the study of feminism is the willingness and encouragement to look at women's personal lives in addition to their writing, whether published or unpublished, to re-discover and re-imagine our American past.
Thank you for your kind words! I actually had a lot of fun putting the exhibit together, and I definitely plan on adding to the exhibit this summer as I work my way through my independent study on American EcoFeminism. I had never heard of Rebecca Harding Davis, but I want to track down her short essay/story after reading through Mock's article. I'm finding that what draws me to the study of feminism is the willingness and encouragement to look at women's personal lives in addition to their writing, whether published or unpublished, to re-discover and re-imagine our American past.