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

Auteurs

  • Terre Ryan Fordham University

Mots-clés :

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

Résumé

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

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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Publiée

2010-01-05

Comment citer

Ryan, T. (2010). Creation Stories: Myth, Oil, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Journal of Ecocriticism, 2(1), 81–86. Consulté à l’adresse https://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/joe/article/view/146

Numéro

Vol. 2 No 1 (2010)

Rubrique

Commentary

Licence

Copyright Journal of Ecocriticism