The Cambridge companion to American literature and the environment / edited by Sarah Ensor, Susan Scott Parrish.

• Introduction / Sarah Ensor and Susan Scott Parrish -- Part I. Environmental Histories -- 1. Scenes of human diminishment in early American natural history / Christoph Irmscher -- 2. Slavery and the anthropocene / Paul Outka -- 3. (In)conceivable futures: Henry David Thoreau and reproduction's queer ecology / Sarah Ensor -- 4. Narrating animal extinction from the pleistocene to the anthropocene / Timothy Sweet -- 5. Pastoral reborn in the anthropocene: Henry David Thoreau to Kyle Powys Whyte / Wai Chee Dimock -- Part II. Environmental Genres and Media -- 6. The heat of modernity: The great gatsby as petrofiction / Harilaos Stecopoulos -- 7. Children in transit/children in Peril: The contemporary US novel in a time of climate crisis / Min Hyoung Song -- 8. Meta-critical climate change fiction: Claire Vaye Watkins's gold fame citrus / Rick Crownshaw -- 9. Junk food for thought: Decolonizing diets in Tommy Pico's poetry / Nicole Seymour -- 10. Tender woods: Looking for the black outdoors with Dawoud Bey / Susan Scott Parrish -- Part III. Environmental Spaces, Environmental Methods -- 11. Urban narrative and the futures of biodiversity / Ursula Heise -- 12. Japanese American incarceration and the turn to earth: Looking for a man named Komako in bad day at black rock / Mika Kennedy -- 13. Leisure over labor: Latino outdoors and the production of a Latinx outdoor recreation identity / Sarah D. Wald -- 14. Sanctuary: literature and the colonial politics of protection / Matt Hooley -- 15. The queer restoration poetics of Audre Lorde / Angela Hume.

• "This Companion offers a capacious overview of American environmental literature and criticism. Tracing environmental literatures from the gates of the Manzanar War Relocation Camp in California to the island of St. Croix, from the notebooks of eighteenth-century naturalists to the practices of contemporary activists, this book offers readers a broad, multimedia definition of 'literature', a transnational, settler colonial comprehension of America, and a more-than-green definition of 'environment'. Demonstrating links between ecocriticism and such fields as Black feminism, food studies, decolonial activism, Latinx studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, and carceral studies, the volume reveals the persistent relevance of literary methods within the increasingly interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities, while also modeling practices of literary reading shaped by this interdisciplinary turn"-- 

Ämnesord

Amerikansk litteratur  (sao)

Ekokritik i litteraturen  (sao)

Ekokritik  (sao)

Amerikansk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Environmentalism in literature.  (LCSH)

Environmental literature  -- United States -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Ecocriticism  -- United States. (LCSH)

American literature  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Miljörörelser i litteraturen (prel/[G]) 

Ecocriticism  (LCSH)

American literature  (LCSH)

Ecocriticism in literature  (LCSH)

Förenta staterna  (sao)

Genre

Analys och tolkning  (saogf)

Klassifikation

810.936 (DDC)