Refiguring the Map of Sorrow: Nature Writing and Autobiography

by Mark Christopher Allister and Mark Allister

Book Overview

Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of interest in both autobiography and environmental literature. In Refiguring the Map of Sorrow, Mark Allister brings these two genres together by examining a distinct form of grief narrative, in which the writers deal with mourning by standing explicitly both outside and inside the text: outside in writing about the natural world; inside in making that exposition part of the grieving process.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813920655
• ISBN13: 9780813920658
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"