Civil rights and the environment in African-American literature, 1895-1941.
Title:
Civil rights and the environment in African-American literature, 1895-1941.
Author:
Claborn, John, author.
ISBN:
9781350009431
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (168 pages) : illustrations.
Series:
Environmental cultures ; 11
Environmental cultures series ; 11.
Contents:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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