Posmentier Cultivation and Catastrophe

The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4214-2266-4
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: The Callaloo African Diaspora Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Posmentier, Sonya

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Umweltgeschichte & Umweltarchäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Posmentier, Sonya
Sonya Posmentier is an associate professor of English at New York University.