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The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Environment

The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Environment

by Sarah Ensor and Susan Scott Parrish
Paperback
Publication Date: 17/03/2022

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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. The result is a volume that will prove indispensable both to students seeking an overview of American environmental literature/criticism and to established scholars seeking new approaches to the field.
ISBN:
9781108815277
9781108815277
Category:
Literature: history & criticism
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
17-03-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
227x150x15mm
Weight:
0.45kg

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