Introduction: entering the middle place -- The road to San Simon: toward a multicultural ecocriticism -- Abbey's country: Desert solitaire and the trouble with wilderness -- Simon Ortiz's Fight back: environmental justice, transformative ecocriticism, and the middle place -- Cultural critique and local pedagogy: a reading of Louise Erdrich's Tracks -- And the ground spoke: Joy Harjo and the struggle for a land-based language -- A place to see: self-representation and resistance in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead -- Reinventing nature: Leslie Marmon Silko's critique of Euro-American "nature talk" -- Conclusion: to San Simon and back.
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