Cultivation and Catastrophe - The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature

Informationen zum Autor Sonya Posmentier is an associate professor of English at New York University. Klappentext At the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body of black literary response to natural and agricultural experiences, whether the legacy of enforced agricultural labor or the destruction and displacement brought about by a hurricane. In Cultivation and Catastrophe, Sonya Posmentier uncovers a vivid diasporic tradition of black environmental writing that responds to the aftermath of plantation slavery, urbanization, and free and forced migrations. While humanist discourses of African American and postcolonial studies often sustain a line between nature and culture, this book instead emphasizes the relationship between them, offering an innovative environmental history of modern black literature. Zusammenfassung While humanist discourses of African American and postcolonial studies often sustain a line between nature and culture! this book instead emphasizes the relationship between them! offering an innovative environmental history of modern black literature.

Product details

• Authors: Sonya Posmentier, Sonya (Assistant Professor Posmentier
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781421437934
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-3793-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Callaloo African Diaspora; The Callaloo African Diaspora Series; The Callaloo African Diaspora Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; NATURE / Ecology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Applied ecology, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Black & Asian Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black