The Geographical Imagination of Annie Proulx: Rethinking Regionalism

The Geographical Imagination of Annie Proulx: Rethinking Regionalism, edited by Alex Hunt, analyzes Proulx from many angles.

This book is not only a timely intervention in emerging studies of Proulx; it furthermore crosses the sometimes divisive nature of academic disciplines and will be valuable to readers from varied fields such as geography, history and literature.

Alex Hunt and the contributors he has brought together provide a valuable array of critical perspectives on one of the most significant aspects of the fiction of Annie Proulx, the human relationship to the land. Their volume serves to illuminate many facets of Proulx”s construction of the complex, difficult, ironic connections between what people often may expect of the landscapes of North America, and the land itself. They not only offer important insights into all of Proulx”s work, but a useful general introduction to current critical approaches to understanding literary representations of our relations to our environment. — Eric H. Patterson, author of On Brokeback Mountain: Meditations about Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film