Literary Feminist Ecologies of American and Caribbean Expansi... - 9781032230139

Literary Feminist Ecologies of American and Caribbean ExpansionismErrand into the Wilderness\nAuthor(s): Christine M. Battista, Melissa R. Sande\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032230139, 978-1032230139\nSynopsis\nThis book synthesizes ecofeminist theory, American studies, and postcolonial theory to interrogate what New Americanist William V. Spanos articulates as the \""errand into the wilderness\"": the ethic of Puritanical expansionism at the heart of the [url] empire that moved westward under Manifest Destiny to colonize Native Americans, non-whites, women, and the land.\n\nThe project explores how the legacy of the errand has been articulated by women writers, from the slave narrative to contemporary fiction. Uniting texts across geographical and temporal boundaries, the book constructs a theoretical approach for reading and understanding how women authors craft counter-narratives at the intersection of meta.