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oapen-20.500.12657-629532024-03-28T08:18:50Z Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature Klestil, Matthias African American literature environmental humanities ecocriticism antebellum race studies thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBF Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSA Literary theory thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminology 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 tradition that uncovers new facets of canonical and understudied texts and offers new directions for ecocriticism and African American studies. 2023-05-16T15:05:00Z 2023-05-16T15:05:00Z 2023 book ONIX_20230516_9783030821029_2 9783030821029 9783030821012 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62953 eng Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment application/pdf n/a 978-3-030-82102-9.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-030-82102-9 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-030-82102-9 10.1007/978-3-030-82102-9 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 0bdd30b8-28cc-4e2d-bd69-6cabb77b36d4 4e5fb4d9-cb1b-4ef6-ba45-8bd639339253 9783030821029 9783030821012 Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Palgrave Macmillan 307 Cham [...] [...] Austrian Science Fund (FWF) open access
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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 ecoliterary tradition that uncovers new facets of canonical and understudied texts and offers new directions for ecocriticism and African American studies.
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