Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance

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Paperback, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US | e druk, 2013
ISBN13: 9781137280527
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Palgrave Macmillan US e druk, 2013 9781137280527
Onderdeel van serie Signs of Race
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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.

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ISBN13:9781137280527
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US

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The Sublime and the Traumatic
The Colonial Pastoral, Abolition, and the Transcendentalist Sublime
'Behold a man transformed into a brute': Slavery and Antebellum Nature
Trauma, Postbellum Nostalgia, and the Lost Pastoral
Trauma and Metamorphosis in Charles Chesnutt's Conjure Tales
Strange Fruit
White Flight
Migrations

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