Race and nature from transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance
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Race and nature from transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance
（Signs of race / general editors, Philip D. Beidler and Gary Taylor）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, c2008
1st Palgrave Macmillan pbk. ed
- : pbk
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"First published in hardcover in 2008 by Palgrave Macmillan in the United States"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-260) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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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