LEADER 02961nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910813960403321 005 20240515215813.0 010 $a1-282-89902-3 010 $a9786612899027 010 $a0-8203-3753-6 035 $a(CKB)2560000000053010 035 $a(OCoLC)692328920 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10430954 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000412956 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11259227 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000412956 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10370282 035 $a(PQKB)10074104 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3038918 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14504 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3038918 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10430954 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL289902 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000053010 100 $a20100419d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBlack on earth $eAfrican American ecoliterary traditions /$fKimberly N. Ruffin 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAthens $cUniversity of Georgia Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (231 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8203-3720-X 311 $a0-8203-2856-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: message of the trees: recognizing ecological burden and beauty -- "Toil and soil": authorizing work and enslavement -- York, Harriet, and George: writing ecological ancestors -- Animal nature: finding ecotheology -- Bones and water: telling on myth -- "I got the blues" epistemology: thinking a way out of eco-crisis -- Conclusion. After levee disaster: learning from a sinned-against city. 330 $aRuffin expands the reach of ecocriticism by analyzing the ecological experiences, conceptions, and desires seen in African American writing. Ruffin examines African American ecological insights from the antebellum era to the twenty-first century, considering WPA slave narratives, neo-slave poetry, novels, essays, and documentary films. 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEcology in literature 606 $aNature in literature 606 $aHuman ecology in literature 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aAfrican American philosophy 606 $aEcocriticism 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEcology in literature. 615 0$aNature in literature. 615 0$aHuman ecology in literature. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aAfrican American philosophy. 615 0$aEcocriticism. 676 $a810.9/36 700 $aRuffin$b Kimberly N.$f1969-$01629436 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813960403321 996 $aBlack on earth$93967166 997 $aUNINA