Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature

by Matthias Klestil

Book Overview

This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil examines forms of environmental knowledge in African American writing ranging from antebellum slave narratives and pamphlets to Charlotte Forten's journals, Booker T. Washington's autobiographies, and Charles W. Chesnutt's short...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030821048
• ISBN13: 9783030821043
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"