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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Klestil, Matthias, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2023.
Edición:1st ed. 2023.
Colección:Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009743532906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.