Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 499 g
The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature
Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 499 g
Reihe: The Callaloo African Diaspora Series
ISBN: 978-1-4214-2265-7
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
A transformative literary history of black environmental writing.
Winner, William Sanders Scarborough Prize by the Modern Language Association
At the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body of Black literary response to natural and agricultural experiences, whether the legacy of enforced agricultural labor or the destruction and displacement brought about by a hurricane. In Cultivation and Catastrophe, Sonya Posmentier uncovers a vivid diasporic tradition of Black environmental writing that responds to the aftermath of plantation slavery, urbanization, and free and forced migrations. While humanist discourses of African American and postcolonial studies often sustain a line between nature and culture, this book instead emphasizes the relationship between them, offering an innovative environmental history of modern black literature.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Umweltgeschichte & Umweltarchäologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART 1
1. Cultivating the New Negro
2. Cultivating the Nation
3. Cultivating the Caribbean
PART 2
4. Continuing Catastrophe
Collecting Catastrophe
5. Collecting Culture
6. Unnatural Catastrophe
Notes
Bibliography
Index
