Bibliographies

Ecofeminism and Spiritual Narrative

Charles Mitchell (charlesmitchell@elmira.edu)
Mon, 16 Mar 1998 

Thanks to all for your suggestions, and the discussion thread on what is ecofeminsim, spiritual, narrative, and American.  Interesting that no one brought up the institutional parameters which so often clash with our evolving understanding of our disciplines, and our skepticism of labels:  what requirements does a course fulfill? what field code is it offered under? where does it fit in with a highly structured curriculum? I suspect these concerns exercise more control over what we teach--that is, what gets on our reading lists--than we would like to admit.

In any event, here is the compilation of suggestions for a course on Ecofeminsim and Spiritual Narrative (focusing on North America, post 1960, spiritual narrative, place, memoir, spiritual geography:  these are the categories indicated on the books' covers: has anyone studied the role of publishers in creating new genres?):

 
   Mary Swander, Out of this World
   Patiann Rogers
   Alison Deming, Monarchs
   Gretel Ehrlich, Islands, Universe, Home
   Linda Hogan, Dwellings; Solar Storms
   Ann Linnea, Deep Water Passage
   Louise Gluck, Wild Iris
   Jane Kenyon
   Mary Stange, Woman the Hunter
   Mary Oliver, Twelve Moons; House of Light
   Denise Levertov, O Taste and See
   Margaret Atwood, Surfacing; Strange Things
   Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
   Louise Erdrich, Tracks; Bingo Palace
   Marge Piercy, Woman at the Edge of Time
   Lorine Niedecker
   Carol Adams, Sexual Politics of Meat
   Vera Norwood, selection in Ecocriticism Reader
   Greta Gaard, Ecofeminism
   Luci Tapahonso, Blue Horses Rush In
   Zora Neale Hurston (not posty 1960, of course), Their Eyes Were Watching God
   Toni Morrison, Beloved; Sula; Song of Solomon
   Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mother's Gardens; Temple of My Familiar
   Gloria Anzaluda, Borderlands
   Deborah Tall, From Where We Stand
   Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
   Sheri Tepper, Family Tree
   Gloria Naylor, Mama Day
   Sharon Butala, The Perfection of the Morning
   Eudora Welty, Delta Weeping; Golden Apples
   Douglas B. Christie on Mary Oliver and others
   Jean Toomer, Cane
   Jane Rule, Desert Heart (or in the Heart)
   bell hooks, Sisters of the Yam (Orion, Autumn 1996)
   Adams, ed., Ecofeminism and the Sacred
   Doris Sander, Her Own Place
   Edna Escamill, Daughter of the Mountain
  
   And, already on the list:
  
   Annick Smith, Homestead
   Annie Dillard
   Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge
   Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk; Dakota
   Gretel Ehrlich, Solace of Open Places
   Jane Grover, North Enough: AIDS and other Clearcuts
   Luci Tapahonso, The Women are Singing
   Susan Griffin, Women and Nature; Eros of Everyday Life
   Diamond and Ornstein,eds., Reweaving the World: Emergence of Ecofeminism
   Ursula LeGuin, Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences
   Alice Walker, "Am I Blue?"; "Everything is a Human Being"
   Alison Deming, Temporary Homelands
   Jane Brox, Here and Nowhere Else