Skylark Meets Meadowlark Reimagining The Bird In British Romantic And Contemporary Native American Literature Thomas C Gannon by Thomas C. Gannon 9780803220577, 080322057X instant download after payment.

Lakota critic Thomas C. Gannon explores how poets & nature writers in Britain & Native America have incorporated birds into their writings. He discerns an evolution in humankind’s representations—& attitudes toward—other species by examining the avian images & tropes in British Romantic & Native American literatures, & by considering how such literary treatment succeeds from an ecological or animal-rights perspective. 

Such depictions, Gannon argues, reveal much about underlying cultural & historical relationships with the Other—whether other species or other peoples. He elucidates the changing interconnections between birds & humans in British Romanticism from Cowper to Clare, with particular attention to Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, & Keats. 

Gannon then considers how birds are imagined by Native writers, including early Lakota authors and contemporary poets such as Linda Hogan & Joy Harjo. Ultimately he shows how the sensitive & far-reaching connections with nature forged by Native American writers encourage a more holistic reimagining of humankind’s relationship to other animals.