Fannie and Alan Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College

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Patricia Klindienst - Gardens & the Making of Americans

Patricia Klindienst is the author of the celebrated and widely reviewed recent book, The Earth Knows my Name: Food, Culture, & Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans (Beacon Press, 2006). In her own description, this book is the first to "restore the cultural meaning of gardens created by ethnic Americans, including Native Americans, Gullah descendants of West African slaves, Hispanics whose ancestors came with the conquistadors, and immigrants from across Europe and Asia." She has also published recent essays that connect gardening to conservation, the construction of memory, ethnic cleansing. She has taught at Yale, Wesleyan and Connecticut College, and her distinguished record of academic publication includes the landmark feminist essays, "The Voice of the Shuttle is Ours," Stanford Literature Review, I:i (Spring) 1984, pp. 25-53, and "Philomela's Loom," Epilogue, Coming to Light: American Women Poets in the Twentieth Century, eds. Middlebrook and Yalom, (University of Michigan Press, 1985), pp. 254-267.

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