Reclaiming Nostalgia: Longing for Nature in American Literature Book

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction 1

Having a Field Day: Authentic Indians and Patriotic Tourism in the Early National Parks 19

1 Longing for Wonderland: Zitkala-Ša's Post-Frontier Nostalgia 26

"Plucked up by the Roots": The Nostalgic Trajectories of the Southern Agrarians 51

2 "Home Thoughts": The Transnational Routes of Nostalgia in Claude McKay's Home to Harlem 58

Born Free and Equal: Frontier Nostalgia and the Nature of Manzanar 86

3 Nostalgia's Caring Capacity: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac, and the "Last Call" for Nature 94

"A Tear for the Fate of America": The (Crying) Indian as Spokesperson for a Vanishing Natural World 119

4 Remembering the Earth: N. Scott Momaday's Nostalgic American Land Ethic 127

Patenting "The Last of Nature's Creations": Mice and Men in a Postnatural World 154

5 Don DeLillo's Postmodern Homesickness: Nostalgia after the End of Nature 162

Nature Survives: Frontier Nostalgia on Reality TV 188

6 Nostalgia and Nature at the Millennium: Ruth Ozeki's Green Culture of Life 195

Conclusion 225

Notes 233

Bibliography 247

Index 269