Converging stories : race, ecology, and environmental justice in American literature /

Converging stories : race, ecology, and environmental justice in American literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Myers, Jeffrey, 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2005]
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism.
Conservation of natural resources in literature.
Environmental justice > United States.
Environmental protection in literature.
Philosophy of nature in literature.
Forests in literature.
Wilderness areas in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Nature in literature.
Racism in literature.
Race in literature.
Forestry in literature.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • From ecological and racial hegemony to environmental justice
  • Labor in the earth : Jefferson's paradoxical notes on the state of Virginia
  • Seeking new terrain : Thoreau's "Preservation of the world"
  • Other nature : Chesnutt's resistance to ecological and racial hegemony
  • To transplant the native sprit : the environmental ethic of Zitkala-S̈a
  • The antiracist ecocentricity of Eddy L. Harris.