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Record Nr.

UNINA9910247444603321

Autore

Claborn John

Titolo

Civil rights and the environment in African-American literature, 1895-1941 / / John Claborn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Environmental cultures ; ; 11

Disciplina

810.9/896073009041

Soggetti

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

Ecology in literature

Environmentalism in literature

Civil rights in literature

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Up from nature: racial uplift and ecological agencies in Booker T. Washington's autobiographies -- W. E. B. Du Bois  at the Grand Canyon: nature, history, and race in A darkwater -- The crisis, the politics of nature, and the Harlem Renaissance: Effie Lee Newsome's eco-poetics -- Sawmills and swamps: ecological collectives in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men and Their eyes were watching God -- From black Marxism to industrial ecosystem: racial and ecological crisis in William Attaway's Blood on the forge -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Explores how African-American writers in the early 20th century - including Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois and Effie Lee Newsome - grappled with environmental crisis in the context of the civil rights movement.