Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature
This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil examines forms of environmental knowledge in African American writing ranging fr...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс eКнига |
| Язык: | английский |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2023.
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| Редактирование: | 1st ed. 2023. |
| Серии: | Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment,
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Оглавление:
- 1. Introduction: African American Environmental Knowledge at Niagara
- Part I Foundations: Antebellum African American Environmental Knowledge
- 2. Claiming (through) Space: Topographies of Enslavement, the Literary Heterotopia of the Underground Railroad, and the Co-Agency of the Non-human
- 3. Resisting (through) the Eye: Antebellum Visual Regimes, the Slave Narrative's Rhetoric of Visibility, and African American Strategic Pastoral
- 4. Negotiating (through) the Skin: The Black Body, Pamphleteering, and African American Writing against Biological Exclusion
- Part II Transformations: African American Environmental Knowledge from Reconstruction to Modernity
- 5. Transforming Space: Nature, Education, and Home in Charlotte Forten and William Wells Brown
- 6. Transforming Vision: The Pastoral, the Georgic, and Evolutionary Thought in Booker T. Washington
- 7. Transforming the Politics of the Black Body: Trans-corporeality, Epistemological Resistance, and Spencerism in Charles W. Chesnutt
- 8. Conclusion: African American Environmental Knowledge at Yellowstone.