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This book synthesizes ecofeminist theory, American studies, and postcolonial theory to interrogate what New Americanist William V. Spanos articulates as the "errand into the wilderness". It will be a significant discussion text for students, scholars and researchers in environmental humanities, ecofeminism, and postcolonial studies.
List of contents
1. Ecologies of Exception: Gender, Race, and the Eco-Imperial Imaginary in the Caribbean and American Literature and Culture 2. Ecologies of Racism: A Genealogy of Black Feminisms in American Slavery 3. Nomadic Ecologies, Race, and Female Masculinities: Willa Cather's Conflicted Land Ethics and Civilizing Science in
O Pioneers! 4. Errand of American Expansionism: The Intersections of Violence, Women's Bodies, and Natural Space in the Novels of Edwidge Danticat 5. "Pecola and the Unyielding Earth": Exclusionary Cartographies, Transgenerational Trauma, and Racialized Dispossession in
The Bluest Eye 6. "A Hurricane Ravaging the Island": An Examination of Blackness, Witchcraft, and Feminist Alterity in Maryse Condé's
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem 7. Mapping the Counter-Errand: Feminist Agential Ecologies in Linda Hogan's
Solar Storms 8. Conclusion
About the author
Christine M. Battista is Instructional Design Specialist at Sierra Space and an independent scholar in Denver, U.S.A.
Melissa R. Sande is Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Humanities at Union College of Union County, NJ, U.S.A.
Summary
This book synthesizes ecofeminist theory, American studies, and postcolonial theory to interrogate what New Americanist William V. Spanos articulates as the "errand into the wilderness". It will be a significant discussion text for students, scholars and researchers in environmental humanities, ecofeminism, and postcolonial studies.
