Environmental knowledge, race, and African American literature / Matthias Klestil.
Klestil, Matthias, author.
2023
PS153.B53
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Title Environmental knowledge, race, and African American literature / Matthias Klestil.
Author Klestil, Matthias, author.
ISBN 9783030821029 (electronic bk.)
3030821021 (electronic bk.)
3030821013
9783030821012
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82102-9
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-82102-9 doi
Call Number PS153.B53
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.936
Summary 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 from antebellum slave narratives and pamphlets to Charlotte Fortens journals, Booker T. Washingtons autobiographies, and Charles W. Chesnutts 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.
Note Includes index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Literatures, cultures, and the environment.
Available in Other Form ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE, RACE, AND AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE.
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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 Narratives 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.

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