Reclaiming Nostalgia: Longing for Nature in American Literature

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Abbey, Edward, 18, 165, 199, 203, 212, 225, 233; Desert Solitaire, 116–17; industrial tourism, xi–ii; wilderness and nostalgia, 117 Adams, Ansel, 17, 86–93; counternostalgia , 17; Frederick Jackson Turner and, 91; frontier nostalgia, 90. See also Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans African Americans, 61–67. See also Harlem Renaissance; Home to Harlem (McKay) All Over Creation (Ozeki), 193–94, 197; affective community, 200, 222; agriculture and capitalism, 205; Burbank potato, 203–5; end of nature rhetoric, 206–7; environmentalism and multiculturalism, 216–17; environmentalism as terrorism, 214– 15; eulogizing nonhuman nature, 203; farmers, 210–12; Garden of Earthly Delights, 213; genetic engineering, 207–8, 211–12, 216–17; global agribusiness, 198, 204, 210, 213–15, 219; green culture of life, 200, 219; historical truth, 209, 217; millennial nostalgia, 198; multiculturalism, 197, 216–17; multi-species communities, 208; mutualism, 206; Native Americans, 217–18; natural hybrids, 215–16; nature’s agency, 206–9; neoliberalism , 197, 218, 220–23; nostalgia and hybridity, 194; nostalgic nature imagery and political action, 222–23; pre-death of nature activisms, 198; private property, 214–15; pro-life agenda, 219; scarcity and capitalism, 209–11; wildness of nature, 206–7 American cultural imperialism, 196; as hegemonic, 198; alternatives to, 196–98 American exceptionalism, nature and, 10–11, 28 American Indian Stories (Zitkala- Ša), 24–25, 34; “America’s Indian Problem,” 50; civilization-savagery binary, 32, 35, 37; civilizing machine, 41–42; frontier rhetoric, 35, 47; Myers, Jeffrey, on, 34–35; nature in, 38–39; nostalgia in, 42–43; overcivilization, 35, 37–38; pastoral community, 40; “Retrospection,” 46–47; telegraph pole, 41; “The Big Red Apples,” 43–44; “The Cutting of My Long Hair,” 46; “The Land of the Red Apples,” 44–45; the Wonderland, 434 anticipated regret (Landman), 103 anti-foundationalism, 196 anti-nostalgia, 8, 15, 174, 205 Baker, Jr., Houston A., 60 Baudrillard, Jean, 158, 163 Berry, Wendell, 56–57 Birth of a Nation, 33 Index 270 / INDEX with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature,” 27 cultural studies, 234; green cultural studies, 9 DeLillo, Don, 16; irony, 170–71; nostalgia as ally, 170, 185; postmodern nature, 167; postmodern nostalgia, 168–69; postnatural, 168–69; post-pastoral literature, 171; Underworld, 167, 170, 185. See also White Noise Deloria, Philip J., Playing Indian, 26, 124, 129, 234–35 Dixon, Melvin, 68, 70 Dixon, Jr., Thomas, The Clansman, 13, 32–33 Dolly the Sheep, 154; Franklin, Sarah, 159 du Bois, W.E.B., 34; on African Americans and natural culture, 61; review of Home to Harlem, 62–63; The Souls of Black Folk, 60–61 ear mouse, 154–55, 241 Earth Day 1970, 129 ecocriticism: cultural studies and, 234; green cultural studies and, 9; interdisciplinarity of, 9; pastoral and, 228; postcolonial ecocriticism, 228–29 ecology: balance and harmony model, 206–7; postmodern, 196 The End of Nature (McKibben), 162–63; critiques of, 158, 165 end of nature rhetoric, 17, 116, 195, 206–7; nostalgic responses to, 8, 18, 93 environmental justice, 10, 125, 129; environmental racism, 129, 229; history of 167; Ozeki, Ruth, and, 199, 244; relationship to mainstream environmentalism, 96, 167; White Noise and, 182–83 environmentalism, 8, 18; 1980s, 129, 165–66, 214; conservation and, 95, 99; death of environmentalism, 229; deep ecology and, 125; economy and, 95; human domination of nature, 125; Leopold, Aldo, 99; mainstreaming, 129, 215; nostalgia and, 8, 96, 116, 229; pastoralism and, 99, 138; rhetoric of, 117–18, 229; shifting values of, 27–28, 95; terrorism and, 214–15 bison herd, Yellowstone National Park, 225–26, 245 Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans (Adams), 86–93; assimilation, 90; frontier rhetoric, 88, 92; internees as exiles, 89; nature as inspiration, 87, 89; nostalgia, 89–90; pioneer rhetoric, 92 Boym, Svetlana, 12–16, 71, 223; The Future of Nostalgia, 13–14 Buell, Frederick, 195–96, 199 Buell, Lawrence: ecoglobalist affect, 228; on Carson, 97; environmental memory, 228; on Leopold, 107; on the pastoral, 11; on White Noise, 181 Bureau of Indian Affairs, 50 capitalism: All Over Creation (Ozeki), 198, 205; frontier narratives, 93; global capitalism, 10, 169, 198; nature as final frontier for, 163, 169; postmodern ecology, 196; racial distinctions and, 193; reality TV and, 191–92; scarcity and, 209–11; Survivor and, 189, 192–93; in White Noise, 171 Carson, Rachel, 16, 93; debates over, 238; environmental justice, 96; environmental mainstream, 129–30; Silent Spring, 96–98 Cather, Willa: The Professor’s House, 58–59; regionalism, 58 childhood, nostalgia for...