Cultivation and catastrophe : the lyric ecology of modern Black literature

Cultivation and catastrophe : the lyric ecology of modern Black literature /

"At the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body of black literary response to natural and agricultural experiences, whether the legacy of enforced agricultural labor or of the destruction and displacement brought about by a hurricane. In Cultivation and Ca...

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Main Author: Posmentier, Sonya, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Series:Callaloo African diaspora series.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Caribbean literature > Black authors > History and criticism.
Caribbean literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Nature in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Black people > Caribbean Area > Intellectual life > 20th century.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
African diaspora.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART 1: CULTIVATION; 1 Cultivating the New Negro: The Provision Ground in New York; 2 Cultivating the Nation: The Reterritorialization of Black Poetry at Midcentury; 3 Cultivating the Caribbean: "The Star-Apple Kingdom," Property, and the Plantation; PART 2: CATASTROPHE; 4 Continuing Catastrophe: The Flood Blues of Sterling Brown and Bessie Smith; 5 Collecting Catastrophe: How the Hurricane Roars in Zora Neale Hurston's; 6 Collecting Culture: Hurricane Gilbert's Lyric Archive; Coda: Unnatural Catastrophe

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