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''''Asta Bowen''' is a [[Young-adult fiction|young-adult]] writer. He's best known for his novel [[Wolf: The Journey Home]]. |
''''Asta Bowen''' is a [[Young-adult fiction|young-adult]] writer. He's best known for his novel [[Wolf: The Journey Home]]. |
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==Biography== |
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'Asta Bowen is born in an family of Irish descent and is raised at [[Orland Park, Illinois]] in [[Illinois]].<ref name="biography-by-publisher">{{Cite web|url=http://booklikes.com/asta-bowen/author,266952|title='Asta Bowen}}</ref>. |
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She publishes his first book, ''The huckleberry book'' in 1988. Nine years later, his best known work, ''[[Wolf: The Journey Home]]'' is released. |
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From 1988 to 2001, she published a column in the [[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]].<ref name="biography-by-publisher" /> |
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She now teaches composition in [[Montana]].<ref name="biography-by-publisher" /> |
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==The wolf myth== |
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'Asta Bowen writes young-adult fiction, with a focus on the myth of the wolf. In ''Wolf: The Journey Home'', the is a scene where a wolf body allows to find the killer has been compared by the professor of American Literature and American Studies S. K. Robisch to a real [[poaching]] in the [[Yellowstone Park]], against one male of the Druids wolf pack, named from [[Druid Peak]], the first reintroduced in this park in 1996, where the killer has been apprehended because he kept the head as trophy.<ref name="robisch">{{cite book|first=S. K.|last=Robisch|title=Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature|publisher=University of Nevada Press|city=Reno|oclc=429685308|year=2009}}</ref> |
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In the same study of [[wolf]] in [[American literature]], he credits 'Asta Bowen to correctly portraits the role of the den location, to raise the new litter. There is virtually no anthropomorphism in this novel, wolves describes are real ones but approached sometime the border of anthropomorphism, for example giving to the wolves names like Marth or Oldtooth.<ref name="robisch" /> |
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British historian Karen Jones, specialized in the history of the American West, environmental history and Animal Studies, stresses upon the importance of such works in the environmental values transmission. She notes works like 'Asta Bowen “contain descriptions of intelligent canine protagonists that countered the images of bestial excess in traditional Euro-American wolf tales.”.<ref name="Jones">{{Cite journal|first=Karen|last=Jones|title=Writing the Wolf: Canine Tales and North American Environmental-Literary Tradition|journal=Environment and History|volume=17|issue=2|date=may 2011|pages=201-228|publisher=White Horse Press|doi=10.3197/096734011X12997574042964}}</ref> |
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Jones also notes, more strongly than Robisch the “humanistic traits” of the wolves: in ''Wolf: The Journey Home'', she sees Marta as an “[[Ecofeminism|eco-feminist]] icon, a strong female character” and as “totem for positive [[gender identity]]”.<ref name="Jones" /> |
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Finally, she compares the myth to the [[Frederick Jackson Turner|Turner]]'s [[Frontier Thesis]]: “Bowen’s fictionalised rendition of lupine restoration involved copious quantities of pain, struggle, and death. This was a damming verdict on Turnerian triumphalism. Here the wolf story showed a West not won but lost. In Bowen’s work, the wolf emerged as a potent signifier of frontier guilt, an expression that also proved common in commentary on the wolf reintroduction programme in Yellowstone in the mid-1990s.”<ref name="Jones" /> |
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==Work reception== |
==Work reception== |
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His first novel, ''Wolf: The Journey Home'', is well received and was nominated for the 2006 Teens' Top Ten award by the [[American Library Association]].<ref name="Daily Inter Lake">{{cite web |url=http://www.dailyinterlake.com/community/lifestyle/article_36d7511d-0c8b-5528-b9fb-1bd025589d1f.html |title= Making the teen scene — in books |first=Nancy |last=Kimball |date=October 7, 2006 |work=[[The Daily Inter Lake]] |accessdate=April 29, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/Nominations2006TTT.pdf |title=Nominations for the 2006 Teens’ Top Ten Books |publisher=[[American Library Association]] |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060602134132/http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/Nominations2006TTT.pdf |year=2006 |archivedate=June 2, 2006 |format=pdf }}</ref> |
His first novel, ''Wolf: The Journey Home'', is well received and was nominated for the 2006 Teens' Top Ten award by the [[American Library Association]].<ref name="Daily Inter Lake">{{cite web |url=http://www.dailyinterlake.com/community/lifestyle/article_36d7511d-0c8b-5528-b9fb-1bd025589d1f.html |title= Making the teen scene — in books |first=Nancy |last=Kimball |date=October 7, 2006 |work=[[The Daily Inter Lake]] |accessdate=April 29, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/Nominations2006TTT.pdf |title=Nominations for the 2006 Teens’ Top Ten Books |publisher=[[American Library Association]] |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060602134132/http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/Nominations2006TTT.pdf |year=2006 |archivedate=June 2, 2006 |format=pdf }}</ref> |
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==Positions== |
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Asta Bowen depicts the role of the television as central in our society, and considers it impedes effective literature teaching.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Schelhaas|first=David|date=February 1994|title=The Dangerous Safety of Fiction |journal=The English Journal|publisher=National Council of Teachers of English|volume=83|issue=2|pages=51-55|doi=10.2307/821155|jstor=821155}}</ref> |
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==Bibliography== |
==Bibliography== |
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==References== |
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== External links == |
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* [http://www.astabowen.com/ Official site] |
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Revision as of 21:13, 29 August 2014
'Asta Bowen is a young-adult writer. He's best known for his novel Wolf: The Journey Home.
Biography
'Asta Bowen is born in an family of Irish descent and is raised at Orland Park, Illinois in Illinois.[1].
She publishes his first book, The huckleberry book in 1988. Nine years later, his best known work, Wolf: The Journey Home is released.
From 1988 to 2001, she published a column in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.[1]
She now teaches composition in Montana.[1]
The wolf myth
'Asta Bowen writes young-adult fiction, with a focus on the myth of the wolf. In Wolf: The Journey Home, the is a scene where a wolf body allows to find the killer has been compared by the professor of American Literature and American Studies S. K. Robisch to a real poaching in the Yellowstone Park, against one male of the Druids wolf pack, named from Druid Peak, the first reintroduced in this park in 1996, where the killer has been apprehended because he kept the head as trophy.[2]
In the same study of wolf in American literature, he credits 'Asta Bowen to correctly portraits the role of the den location, to raise the new litter. There is virtually no anthropomorphism in this novel, wolves describes are real ones but approached sometime the border of anthropomorphism, for example giving to the wolves names like Marth or Oldtooth.[2]
British historian Karen Jones, specialized in the history of the American West, environmental history and Animal Studies, stresses upon the importance of such works in the environmental values transmission. She notes works like 'Asta Bowen “contain descriptions of intelligent canine protagonists that countered the images of bestial excess in traditional Euro-American wolf tales.”.[3]
Jones also notes, more strongly than Robisch the “humanistic traits” of the wolves: in Wolf: The Journey Home, she sees Marta as an “eco-feminist icon, a strong female character” and as “totem for positive gender identity”.[3]
Finally, she compares the myth to the Turner's Frontier Thesis: “Bowen’s fictionalised rendition of lupine restoration involved copious quantities of pain, struggle, and death. This was a damming verdict on Turnerian triumphalism. Here the wolf story showed a West not won but lost. In Bowen’s work, the wolf emerged as a potent signifier of frontier guilt, an expression that also proved common in commentary on the wolf reintroduction programme in Yellowstone in the mid-1990s.”[3]
Work reception
His first novel, Wolf: The Journey Home, is well received and was nominated for the 2006 Teens' Top Ten award by the American Library Association.[4][5]
Positions
Asta Bowen depicts the role of the television as central in our society, and considers it impedes effective literature teaching.[6]
Bibliography
- The huckleberry book (1988)
- Wolf: The Journey Home (1997)
References
- ^ a b c "'Asta Bowen".
- ^ a b Robisch, S. K. (2009). Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature. University of Nevada Press. OCLC 429685308.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|city=ignored (|location=suggested) (help) - ^ a b c Jones, Karen (may 2011). "Writing the Wolf: Canine Tales and North American Environmental-Literary Tradition". Environment and History. 17 (2). White Horse Press: 201–228. doi:10.3197/096734011X12997574042964.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Kimball, Nancy (October 7, 2006). "Making the teen scene — in books". The Daily Inter Lake. Retrieved April 29, 2010.
- ^ "Nominations for the 2006 Teens' Top Ten Books" (PDF). American Library Association. 2006. Archived from the original (pdf) on June 2, 2006.
- ^ Schelhaas, David (February 1994). "The Dangerous Safety of Fiction". The English Journal. 83 (2). National Council of Teachers of English: 51–55. doi:10.2307/821155. JSTOR 821155.
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