LEADER 02992oam 22004214a 450 001 9910153233803321 005 20230808200606.0 010 $a1-61376-417-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000954452 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4744424 035 $a(OCoLC)963603775 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse53548 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000954452 100 $a20160318d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aCultivating Environmental Justice$eA Literary History of U.S. Garden Writing /$fRobert S. Emmett 210 1$aAmherst :$cUniversity of Massachusetts Press,$d2016. 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE,$d2016 210 4$dİ2016. 215 $a1 online resource (250 pages) 311 $a1-62534-204-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- The democratic roots of twentieth-century U.S. garden writing -- Postwar garden writing, literary cultivation, and environmentalism -- Being there, second nature, and the gardener as pragmatist -- Race, regionalism, and the emergence of environmental justice in Southern gardens -- Postindustrial America and the rise of community gardens -- Seeding new territories -- Epilogue. garden writing and a phenology of survival. 330 $a"While Michael Pollan and others have popularized ideas about how growing one's own food can help lead to environmental sustainability, environmental justice activists have pushed for more access to gardens and fresh food in impoverished communities. Now, Robert S. Emmett argues that mid-twentieth-century American garden writing included many ideas that became formative for these contemporary environmental writers and activists. Drawing on ecocriticism, environmental history, landscape architecture, and recent work in environmental justice and food studies, Emmett explores how the language of environmental justice emerged in descriptions of gardening across a variety of literary forms. He reveals early egalitarian associations found in garden writing, despite a popular focus on elite sites such as suburban lawns and formal southern gardens. Cultivating Environmental Justice emphasizes the intergenerational work of gardeners and garden writers who, from the 1930s on, asserted increasingly radical socioeconomic and ecological claims to justice. Emmett considers a wide range of texts by authors including Bernard M'Mahon, Scott and Helen Nearing, Katharine S. White, Elizabeth Lawrence, Alice Walker, and Novella Carpenter" --$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aHorticultural literature$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aHorticultural literature$xHistory. 676 $a635.0973 700 $aEmmett$b Robert S.$f1979-$01067055 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910153233803321 996 $aCultivating Environmental Justice$92889598 997 $aUNINA