Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance

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Signs of Race

ISBN: 1137280522
ISBN 13: 9781137280527
Autor: Outka, P
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xiii, 266 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.04.2013
Auflage: 1/2013
Produktform: Kartoniert
Einband: KT

Popular Topic: Borders, otherness, and the destabilization of both are current popular topics. Whiteness studies still has an aura of being a new field of study Broad Audience: The mixture of literature/popular culture, canonical/non-canonical texts broadens the audience Interdisciplinary Approach: It has an interdisciplinary methodology, appealing to scholars in American, literary and cultural studies, as well as race, identity and borders studies

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Beschreibung

Drawing on theories of sublimity, trauma, and ecocriticism, this book examines how the often sharp division between European American and African American experiences of the natural world developed in American culture and history, and how those natural experiences, in turn, shaped the construction of race.

Autorenporträt

PAUL OUTKA is Assistant Professor of English, Florida State University. He has published essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture with a particular focus on poetry, race, and the natural environment.

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