Creation Stories: Myth, Oil, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Autores/as

  • Terre Ryan Fordham University

Palabras clave:

Eden, myth, environmental literature, oil, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Gwich'in, Kaktovik Inupiat

Resumen

Euro-American myths of Eden, the frontier, and the Promised Land continue to inform environmental literature and, therefore, mainstream environmental discourse. Laden with complex and conflicting social values, these myths undermine conservation policy at the expense of human and non-human communities.

Biografía del autor/a

Terre Ryan, Fordham University

Terre Ryan is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Fordham University. She completed a Ph.D. in Literature and Environment at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her work has appeared in Studies in American Indian Literatures and is forthcoming in Weber: The Contemporary West.

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Publicado

2010-01-05

Cómo citar

Ryan, T. (2010). Creation Stories: Myth, Oil, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Journal of Ecocriticism, 2(1), 81–86. Recuperado a partir de https://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/joe/article/view/146

Número

Vol. 2 Núm. 1 (2010)

Sección

Commentary

Licencia

Copyright Journal of Ecocriticism