Black on earth : African American ecoliterary traditions / / Kimberly N. Ruffin
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| Autore: |
Ruffin Kimberly N. <1969->
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| Titolo: |
Black on earth : African American ecoliterary traditions / / Kimberly N. Ruffin
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| Pubblicazione: | Athens, : University of Georgia Press, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/36 |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - African American authors - History and criticism |
| Ecology in literature | |
| Nature in literature | |
| Human ecology in literature | |
| African Americans in literature | |
| African American philosophy | |
| Ecocriticism | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Ruffin 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Black on earth |
| ISBN: | 1-282-89902-3 |
| 9786612899027 | |
| 0-8203-3753-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813960403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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