Converging stories : race, ecology, and environmental justice in American literature
"Jeffrey Myers's new study broadens the fields of race and ecology by looking at writings from the nineteenth century - an era of renewed violence and oppression against people of color and of unprecedented environmental destruction on a continental scale. Myers focuses particularly on works that engage the notion that white racism and alienation from nature sprang from a common source."
Criticism, interpretation, etc
ix 188 pages ; 24 cm
9780820327440, 0820327441
57506585
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 spirit: the environmental ethic of Zitkala-S̈a
The antiracist ecocentricity of Eddy L. Harris