Civil rights and the environment in African-American literature, 1895-1941 / / John Claborn
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| Autore: |
Claborn John
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| Titolo: |
Civil rights and the environment in African-American literature, 1895-1941 / / John Claborn
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/896073009041 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Civil rights and the environment in African-American literature, 1895-1941 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910247444603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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