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Restoring the connection to the natural world : essays on the African American environmental imagination / Sylvia Mayer (ed.).
- Title
- Restoring the connection to the natural world : essays on the African American environmental imagination / Sylvia Mayer (ed.).
- Publication
- Hamburg : LIT ; Piscataway, N.J. : distributed in the US by Transaction Publishers, 2003.
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- Additional Authors
- Mayer, Sylvia.
- Description
- 198 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- FORECAAST ; v. 10
- Uniform Title
- FORECAAST ; v. 10.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / Sylvia Mayer -- Border Ecology: The Slave Narrative of Henry Bibb, Nature, and the Frontier Myth / Christine Gerhardt -- Enclosed by Racist Politics: Space, Place, and Power Dynamics in the Slave Narrative of Harriet Jacobs and in Environmental Justice Activism / Barbara Cook -- Narrative Fitness: Science, Nature, and Zora Neale Hurston's Folk Culture / Suzanne Clark -- Harlem and Primitivism: A Green Reading of Claude McKay's Celebration of Ethnicity in an Urban Context / Ann-Catherine Nabholz -- Of Parasites and Humans: Encounters with Nature in Richard Wright's Native Son and Charles Johnson's Dreamer / Monika Geilern -- "Wounded Green": Spirit, War, Death and Environmental Justice in Toni Cade Bambara's "The Sea Birds are Still Alive" and "Going Critical" / Charlotte Zoe Walker -- Changing Landscapes: Mapping Breast Cancer as an Environmental Justice Issue in Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals / Tina Richardson -- Octavia Butler and the Nature/Culture Divide: An Ecofeminist Approach to the Xenogenesis-Trilogy / Christa Grewe-Volpp -- Genre and Environmentalism: Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, Speculative Fiction, and the African American Slave Narrative / Sylvia Mayer.
- ISBN
- 3825867323
- OCLC
- 52673567
- SCSB-11376554
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library