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- Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Series: The Callaloo African Diaspora Series
summary
A transformative literary history of black environmental writing.Winner, William Sanders Scarborough Prize by the Modern Language AssociationAt 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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xvi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-24
- Part 1: Cultivation
- Part 2: Catastrophe
- Bibliography
- pp. 255-272
Additional Information
ISBN
9781421422664
Related ISBN(s)
9781421422657, 9781421437934
MARC Record
OCLC
988758815
Pages
304
Launched on MUSE
2017-06-04
Language
English
Open Access
No