The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Environment

Herausgeber: Ensor, Sarah; Parrish, Susan Scott

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a broad overview of American environmental literature and criticism. Demonstrating links between ecocriticism and fields such as Black feminism, food studies, Latinx studies, Indigenous studies, and queer theory, it reveals the persistent relevance of literary methods within the interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781108815277
• ISBN-10: 1108815278
• Artikelnr.: 62754317

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Sarah Ensor and Susan Scott Parrish; Part I. Environmental
Histories: 1. Scenes of human diminishment in early American natural
history Christoph Irmscher; 2. Slavery and the anthropocene Paul Outka; 3.
(In)conceivable futures: Henry David Thoreau and reproduction's queer
ecology Sarah Ensor; 4. Narrating animal extinction from the pleistocene to
the anthropocene Timothy Sweet; 5. Pastoral reborn in the anthropocene:
Henry David Thoreau to Kyle Powys Whyte Wai Chee Dimock; Part II.
Environmental Genres and Media: 6. The heat of modernity: The great gatsby
as petrofiction Harilaos Stecopoulos; 7. Children in transit/children in
Peril: The contemporary US novel in a time of climate crisis Min Hyoung
Song; 8. Meta-critical climate change fiction: Claire Vaye Watkins's gold
fame citrus Rick Crownshaw; 9. Junk food for thought: Decolonizing diets in
Tommy Pico's poetry Nicole Seymour; 10. Tender woods: Looking for the black
outdoors with Dawoud Bey Susan Scott Parrish; Part III. Environmental
Spaces, Environmental Methods: 11. Urban narrative and the futures of
biodiversity Ursula Heise; 12. Japanese American incarceration and the turn
to earth: Looking for a man named Komako in bad day at black rock Mika
Kennedy; 13. Leisure over labor: Latino outdoors and the production of a
Latinx outdoor recreation identity Sarah D. Wald; 14. Sanctuary: literature
and the colonial politics of protection Matt Hooley; 15. The queer
restoration poetics of Audre Lorde Angela Hume.