Ecocritical Theology: Neo-Pastoral Themes in American Fiction from 1960 to the Present

A teacher of Bible studies and writing in Georgia, Ashford argues that humankind's alienation from the spiritual realm has created the disenfranchisement from nature, and therefore the lack of respect for nature. To show how this has been expressed in American fiction of the past half century, she examines such topics as Oedipa's religious instant in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, re-weaving master metaphors in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead, and theories of ecotheology in Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer. Annotation 穢2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)