02699nam 22005411 450 991024744460332120200514202323.010.5040/9781350009455(CKB)4100000001283611(OCoLC)1003192964(UkLoBP)bpp09261610(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/43316(EXLCZ)99410000000128361120180302d2017 uy 0engurun#---uuuuatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCivil rights and the environment in African-American literature, 1895-1941 /John ClabornLondon ;New York :Bloomsbury Academic,2017.1 online resourceEnvironmental cultures ;111-350-00945-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismEcology in literatureEnvironmentalism in literatureCivil rights in literatureAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literature19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.Ecology in literature.Environmentalism in literature.Civil rights in literature.American literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.810.9/896073009041Claborn John975512UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBPBOOK9910247444603321Civil rights and the environment in African-American literature, 1895-19412221304UNINA