Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895-1941

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Av John Claborn, Greg Garrard

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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.The beginning of the 20th century marked a new phase of the battle for civil rights in America. But many of the era’s most important African-American writers were also acutely aware of the importance of environmental justice to the struggle. Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature is the first book to explore the centrality of environmental problems to writing from the civil rights movement in the early decades of the century. Bringing ecocritical perspectives to bear on the work of such important writers as Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, the writers of the Harlem Renaissance and Depression-era African-American writing, the book brings to light a vital new perspective on ecocriticism and modern American literary history.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-05-30
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt313 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEnvironmental Cultures
Antal sidor216
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350111622

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Up from Nature: Racial Uplift and Ecological Agencies in Booker T. Washington’s Autobiographies2. W. E. B. Du Bois at the Grand Canyon: Nature, History, and Race in Darkwater 3. The Crisis, the Politics of Nature, and the Harlem Renaissance: Effie Lee Newsome’s Eco-poetics 4. Sawmills and Swamps: Ecological Collectives in Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men and Their Eyes Were Watching God5. From Black Marxism to Industrial Ecosystem: Racial and Ecological Crisis in William Attaway’s Blood on the Forge ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Claborn’s book offers an important account of the profound intersection between anti-racist and environmental struggles in the first half of the twentieth century. Civil Rights and the Environment reveals how deeply entwined those struggles were for a range of African American writers in the period, and in doing so brings to light a vital history of African American environmental justice activism.