On Sacred Ground: The Spirit of Place in Pacific Northwest Literature, by Nicholas O'Connell
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On Sacred Ground explores the literature of the Northwest, the area that extends from the Pacific Ocean to the Rocky Mountains, and from the forty-ninth parallel to the Siskiyou Mountains. The Northwest exhibits astonishing geographical diversity and yet the entire bioregion shares a similarity of climate, flora, and fauna.For Nicholas O'Connell, the effects of nature on everyday Northwest life carry over to the region's literature. Although Northwest writers address a number of subjects, the relationship between people and place proves the dominant one, and that has been true since the first tribes settled the region and began telling stories about it, thousands of years ago. Indeed, it is the common thread linking Chief Seattle to Theodore Roethke, Narscissa Whitman to Ursula K. Le Guin, Joaquin Miller to Ivan Doig, Marilynne Robinson to Jack London, Betty MacDonald to Gary Snyder.Tracing the history of Pacific Northwest literary works―from Native American myths to the accounts of explorers and settlers, the effusions of the romantics, the sharply etched stories of the realists, the mystic visions of Northwest poets, and the contemporary explosion of Northwest poetry and prose―O'Connell shows how the most important contribution of Northwest writers to American literature is their articulation of a more spiritual human relationship with landscape. Pacific Northwest writers and storytellers see the Northwest not just as a source of material wealth but as a spiritual homeland, a place to lead a rich and fulfilling life within the whole context of creation. And just as the relationship between people and place serves as the unifying feature of Northwest literature, so also does literature itself possess a perhaps unique ability to transform a landscape into a sacred place.
On Sacred Ground: The Spirit of Place in Pacific Northwest Literature, by Nicholas O'Connell- Amazon Sales Rank: #5503293 in Books
- Brand: Oconnell, Nicholas
- Published on: 2015-06-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .51" w x 5.51" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 224 pages
Review "On Sacred Ground is earnest, readable, and informative. . . . An invaluable book. Readers looking to connect with their region will appreciate its succinct survey of the history of literature, and its connection with the essence of out native or adopted home."―The Seattle Times
"Defining Pacific Northwest literature is akin to lassoing Sasquatch. Many attempt this distinctly regional feat; few ever succeed. [O'Connell] may be the most successful yet in analyzing the region's literature. . . . Impressive and insightful."―Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Review "As a reader, I'm grateful to O'Connell for amassing his material and presenting it in thought―provoking fashion, and as a teacher, I'm happy to have a book such as this as a starting place for discussing Northwest literature with students. On Sacred Ground is of value to anyone interested in the on―going attempt to define and articulate our region's literature."―David Guterson
About the Author Nicholas O'Connell is the author of At the Field's End: Interviews with Twenty-Two Pacific Northwest Writers. He is the founder of The Writer's Workshop.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. It's OK to tell the truth By Northwest Reader Why, O Why do authors continue to peddle Chief Seattle's Speech as authentic when it has been proven to be a much later embellishment and fiction? O'Connell admits that there is "controversy" about the speech but claims most Native Americans and "many experts" cite it as authentic. Well, of course Native Americans would like the polished environmental litany of woes to be "authentic" but it is most certainly not. Even O'Connell cites A. Furtwangler in admitting that some disagree. Problem is, Furtwangler completely refutes any notion that the speech that has come down to us today even remotely came from Sealth's mouth. Why would a Seattle Chief--on the salt water, 1000 miles away from the plains--talk about buffalo? And why, in the 1850s, would ANYONE talk about the buffalo herds as if they were endangered? (there were plenty of them then). No, the core of Sealth's (Seattle's) speech is in there, but it is like a grain of sand around which the oyster of the environmental movement has accreted around it to form a pearl.It is laughable to quote Native Americans to support Seattle's words, no more relevant than asking the descendants of Thomas Jefferson if Jefferson was a "good President." Native peoples of the Northwest had enough positives going on without having to invent things. We in this country need to start thinking in a more mature way: instead of the old "white man bad, Indian good" mantra of the 60s and 70s, or the reverse of 125 years ago, we need to start evaluating thought on its own merits. White and Native culture had both good and bad elements to them. It is good that we have started facing the truth of how indigenous peoples were treated in the 19th-century and later; but it's also OK to admit that Native cultures were strongly gender bound, and without the white man's unintentional gift of the horse, the mobility of the Native culture is closer to drudgery than romantic.
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