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dc.contributor.authorKlestil, Matthias
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-16T15:05:00Z
dc.date.available2023-05-16T15:05:00Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifierONIX_20230516_9783030821029_2
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62953
dc.description.abstractThis 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 from antebellum slave narratives and pamphlets to Charlotte Forten’s journals, Booker T. Washington’s autobiographies, and Charles W. Chesnutt’s short fiction. The volume highlights how literary forms of environmental knowledge in the African American tradition were shaped by the histories of slavery and race, mainstream environmental writing traditions, and African American forms of expression and intertextuality. Turning to the Underground Railroad, debates over education and home-building, and the aesthetics of the pastoral and the georgic, Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature provides an original perspective on the African American ecoliterary tradition that uncovers new facets of canonical and understudied texts and offers new directions for ecocriticism and African American studies.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesLiteratures, Cultures, and the Environment
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticismen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBF Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900en_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSA Literary theoryen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH Historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminologyen_US
dc.subject.otherAfrican American literature
dc.subject.otherenvironmental humanities
dc.subject.otherecocriticism
dc.subject.otherantebellum
dc.subject.otherrace studies
dc.titleEnvironmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-030-82102-9
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oapen.relation.isbn9783030821029
oapen.relation.isbn9783030821012
oapen.collectionAustrian Science Fund (FWF)
oapen.imprintPalgrave Macmillan
oapen.pages307
oapen.place.publicationCham
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