Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature
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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 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 ecoliterarytradition that uncovers new facets of canonical and understudied texts and offers new directions for ecocriticism and African American studies.
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 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 traditionthat uncovers new facets of canonical and understudied texts and offers new directions for ecocriticism and African American studies.
Provides an in-depth study of the African American environmental literary tradition Draws attention to archival material and a range of under-researched texts Enables fresh perspectives on canonical African American authors of the antebellum period This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
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“One of the finest ecocritical studies of nineteenth-century African-American writing, Matthias Klestil’s book provides rich, detailed readings of the environmental knowledge contained in a broad range of texts, including slave narratives and descriptions of the Underground Railroad, anti-racist pamphlets, Charlotte Forten’s remarkable journal, William Wells Brown’s autobiographical writing, and texts by Booker T. Washington and Charles Chesnutt at century’s end. This book’s range and nuance will appeal to a wide variety of literary scholars, as well as environmental historians.” (David Anderson, Associate Professor of English, University of Louisville, USA)
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