Civil Rights and the Environment in African American Literature, - 1895 194

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. The beginning of the 20th century marked a new phase of the battle for civil rights in America. But many of the era''s most important African-American writers were also acutely aware of the importance of environmental justice to the struggle. Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature is the first book to explore the centrality of environmental problems to writing from the civil rights movement in the early decades of the century. Bringing ecocritical perspectives to bear on the work of such important writers as Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, the writers of the Harlem Renaissance and Depression-era African-American writing, the book brings to light a vital new perspective on ecocriticism and modern American literary history.>

About the author

John Claborn is Lecturer in English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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• Authors: John Claborn, John (University of Illinois At Urbana-Ch Claborn, John (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Claborn
• Assisted by: Greg Garrard (Editor), Richard Kerridge (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781350009424
• ISBN: 978-1-350-00942-4
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Environmental Cultures; Criminal Practice Series; Environmental Cultures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, Ethnic Studies, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Black & Asian Studies, Civics and citizenship, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black