The authors discussed in this book, including James Fenimore Cooper, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Leslie Marmon Silko, place this cross-cultural contact in nature, not only collapsing cultural and racial boundaries, but also complicating divisions between "wilderness" and "civilization."

Cross-Cultural Hybridity in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans
Legacy of 'Doom' on the Crossroads of William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha
Indigenous 'Rememory': Cultural Hybridity and the Nature of Resistance in the Novels of Toni Morrison
Alice Walker's Eco-"Warriors"
The Earth Remains: Place and Prophecy in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead                                       

LINDSEY CLAIRE SMITH is Assistant Professor of English at Oklahoma State University, USA.