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Converging stories : race, ecology, and environmental justice in American literature
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- Creator
- Jeffrey Myers
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2005]
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- ix, 188 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780820327440, 0820327441
- OCLC
- ocm57506585
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-179) and index.
- Introduction: from ecological and racial hegemony to environmental justice -- Labor in the earth: Jefferson's paradoxical Notes on the state of Virginia -- Seeking new terrain: Thoreau's "Preservation of the world" -- Other nature: Chesnutt's resistance to ecological and racial hegemony -- To transplant the native spirit: the environmental ethic of Zitkala-S̈a -- Conclusion: the antiracist ecocentricity of Eddy L. Harris
Subjects
- American literature -- History and criticism.
- Conservation of natural resources in literature.
- Environmental justice -- United States.
- Environmental protection in literature.
- Philosophy of nature in literature.
- Wilderness areas in literature.
- Race relations in literature.
- Ecology in literature.
- Nature in literature.
- Racism in literature.
- Race in literature.