1 Table of Contents
2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Introduction: The Insistence of Geography in the Writing of Annie Proulx
Part 4 I. Orientations
Chapter 5 1. The Influence of the Annales School on Annie Proulx's Geographical Imagination
Chapter 6 2. Proulx and the Postmodern Hyperreal
Chapter 7 3. Drinking the Elixir of Ownership: Pilgrims and Improvers in the Landscapes of Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole and The Shipping News
Chapter 8 4. Postnational United States Regional Hinterlands: Proulx's Ethnic Working-Class Communities in Accordion Crimes
Part 9 II. Geographies
Chapter 10 5. Born Under a Bad Sign: The Question of Geographical Determinism in the Hardscrabble Northern Badlands of Heart Songs and Other Stories
Chapter 11 6. The Corpse in the Stone Wall: Annie Proulx's Ironic New England
Chapter 12 7. "All the Qualities o' the Isle": The Shipping News as Island Myth
Chapter 13 8. Annie Proulx's Wyoming: Geographical Determinism, Landscape, and Caricature
Chapter 14 9. Westward Proulx: The Resistant Landscape of Close Range: Wyoming Stories and That Old Ace in the Hole
Part 15 III. Directions
Chapter 16 10. Landed Bodies: Geography and Disability in The Shipping News
Chapter 17 11. The Location of Immigration: Itinerant Communities and Cultural Hybridity in Annie Proulx's Accordion Crimes
Chapter 18 12. Brokeback Mountain as Progressive Narrative and Cinematic Vision: Landscape, Emotion, and the Denial of Domesticity
Chapter 19 13. Capitalism vs. Localism: Economies of Scale in Annie Proulx's Postcards and That Old Ace in the Hole
Chapter 20 14. The Ecology of Narrative: Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole as Critical Regionalist Fiction
Chapter 21 Afterword: Red Desert: The History of a Place and Annie Proulx as Environmental Historian
22 Bibliography
23 Index
24 Contributors