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Zones of Confluence: Alaskan Non-fiction and the Environment.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Zones of Confluence: Alaskan Non-fiction and the Environment./
Author:	Main, Matthew Shinobu.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	53 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 80-10.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International80-10.
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10931617
ISBN:	9781392024423

Zones of Confluence: Alaskan Non-fiction and the Environment.
Main, Matthew Shinobu.

Zones of Confluence: Alaskan Non-fiction and the Environment. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 53 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 80-10.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alaska Anchorage, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This essay examines three nonfiction narratives set in northwest Alaska written by non-native American authors across three generations to explore questions regarding cross-cultural zones of contact. Such an investigation allows for a better understanding of how literary expressions of cultural consciousness influence readers' views about wilderness and Indigenous peoples who inhabit the land. Each encounter is a textual construction that relies on adept writers who consciously arrive, sometimes through birth, to explore a geography and culture not specifically their own. Cross-cultural relationships formed between settler cultures and Indigenous groups call attention to a twenty-first century state of environmental management, transculturation, and rurality. A rhetorical analysis of these first-person narratives allows for broad, geo-politically minded conversation to account for rural methods, attitudes, and lifestyles. Using part of John McPhee's Coming Into the Country, Nick Jans' The Last Light Breaking, and Seth Kantner's Shopping for Porcupine, I explore questions of personal accountability posed by writers witnessing and grappling with immersion in technological appropriation and cultural loss in Arctic Alaska. Resource development, broad cultural categorization, and oversimplified, distant characterizations of people and culture reduce understanding of life and attitude still present (and evolving) in Alaska. Each author inhabits his time and space to produce a faceted, complicated attitude involving self and the delicate relationships achieved between legislation, technology, and habitat. When and where these culturally distinct associations occur creates a working, comprehensible confluence of ideas, time, and space.

ISBN: 9781392024423Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122764
Cultural anthropology.
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Brooks range

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