'I Hoped for Healing': Exploring Heart-Centric Ecologies of Recuperation in the Eco-Memoirs of Linda Hogan and Leslie Marmon Silko.
Hope can be defined as an 'orientation of the heart' towards the acknowledgement of possibilities and alternate visions of the world. Linda Hogan's The Woman Who Watches Over the World (2001) and Leslie Marmon Silko's The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir (2010) present optimistic visions of human-nature re...
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