S138. CANCELLED: Gendered Land: The Meaning of Metaphor in Environmental Writing

Status: Not Accepted

Room 217B, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Saturday, March 7, 2020
9:00 am to 10:15 am

 

Virgin wilderness, fertile land, Mother Nature, barren ground: American English is infused with gendered metaphors describing our landscape, and these metaphors inform our experiences, our cultural identities, and our writing. A diverse panel explores the creative spaces and limitations of these metaphors across genre, examining the settler colonial roots of common perceptions of land and bodies, and the potential such metaphor can offer stories of environmental and social justice and survival.


Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: Moderator_Questions_2-24-20.docx

Participants

Moderator:

Erica Watson lives and writes on the boundary of Denali National Park, Alaska. Her work has appeared in Panorama, High Desert Journal, Alaska Women Speak, and other publicatons. She earned her MFA in nonfiction from the University of Alaska Anchorage in 2014 and is working on her first book.

CMarie Fuhrman is the coeditor of Native Voices: Indigenous American Poetry, Craft and Conversations and author of poetry and nonfiction which appeared in multiple journals including Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts, Whitefish Review, Broadsided Press, High Desert Journal, and others.

Emily Withnall is a freelance writer and editor. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Kenyon Review, and The Rumpus, among other publications. She is at work on a book about domestic violence and hydraulic fracturing.

Keila Vall de la Ville

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