Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction-Walking at the Intersection of Literature and Materiality; A Brief and Partial History of Walking in the United States; Material Ecocriticism; Walking in American Literature; 1. Paths in the Wilderness-Walking Bodies and Material Agency in Early American Indian Captivity Narratives; Mary White Rowlandson's Pilgrimage Through Captivity; Adventure and Social Critique in Sarah Wakefield's Captivity Narrative; Captive Bodies and Trans-corporeal Ethics

2. "By This Song I Walk"-Land, Movement, and Memory on the Navajo Long WalkThe Long Walk; Walking and the Diné Worldview; Diné Memories of the Long Walk; The Long Walk in Contemporary Diné Poetry; Walking and Survival in Diné Bikéyah; 3. Peripatetic Philosopher-Walking, Rhythm, and Material Nature in Mary Austin's Desert Writing; Euroamerican Nature Writing and Walking; Indigenous Traditions and Austin's Philosophy of Rhythm; The Land of Little Rain's Rhythmic Desert; Knowing and Living with the Land

4. Crossing the Storied Desert-Bodies on the Border in Luis Alberto Urrea's The Devil's HighwayWalking in Chicanx and Mexican Cultures; Walking in the Borderlands in The Devil's Highway; Bodily Suffering in the Material Desert; Peregrinación as Symbol and Experience; Aztlán and Border Legends as Alternative Ways of Knowing; Reading and Writing the Land; 5. Walking Between Worlds-Material and Metaphorical Maps in Louise Erdrich's Novels; The General Allotment Act and Anishinaabe-akii (Anishinaabe Homeland); Roads and Paths-Centering the Margins; Story Routes; Epilogue-Walking for Survival

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