Gina Caison

Erosion

American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance

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Produktbeschreibung

Gina Caison traces how American authors and photographers have grappled with soil erosion as a material reality that shapes narratives and their environment and presents a source of anxiety over preserving the settler-colonial state.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9781478031161
• ISBN-10: 1478031166
• Artikelnr.: 70010286

Autorenporträt

Gina Caison is Kenneth M. England Associate Professor of Southern Literature at Georgia State University, author of Red States: Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Southern Studies, and coeditor of Remediating Region: New Media and the U.S. South.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: Erosion  1
1. Landslides and Horizons of the West  29
2. Surfaces and Allotments of the Heartland  68
3. Disappearing Grounds and Backgrounds of the Gulf  107
4. Gullies and Removals of the Plantation South  141
5. Littoral Cells and Literal Sells of the Atlantic  177
Conclusion: What We Talk About When We Talk About Erosion  209
Notes  221
Bibliography  251
Index  271