TY - JOUR
AU - Lafauci, Lauren E.
AB - 26 0 ISLE landscape and human consciousness is nature writing—or is at least ripe for ecocritical analysis. Regionalist writings have been long "'out of place' in American literary culture" (2), burdened by the disparaging term "local color" and overshadowed by the "realist" and "naturalist" traditions of the same period. In Writing out of Place, however, Fetterley and Pryse offer a provocative reading of regionalism's challenges to our valu- ations of literature. Rochelle Johnson Albertson College of Idaho Hunting from Home: A Year Afield in the Blue Ridge Mountains. By Christopher Camuto. New York: Norton, 2003. 316 pp. Cloth $24.95. Despite its author's modest claim in the Prologue that "nothing re- markable follows," Christopher Camuto's Hunting from Home is re- markable indeed (19). While Camuto takes "hunting" as his subject, he shows us the range and multiplicity of this word's meanings, using hunting as a vantage point from which he creates a narrative of dis- covery: of place, of self, and of the nature of writing. In this insightful book, Camuto offers a personal narrative of a local experience in or- der to demonstrate one way of becoming of the landscape rather than simply living in it (87). In recounting 
TI - Hunting From Home
JF - ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
DO - 10.1093/isle/11.1.260
DA - 2004-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/hunting-from-home-aJHtR96eGG
SP - 260
EP - 261
VL - 11
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -