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American studies, ecocriticism, and citizenship : thinking and acting in the local and global commons /
This collection reclaims public intellectuals and scholars important to the foundational work in American Studies that contributed to emerging conceptions of an ""ecological citizenship"" advocating something other than nationalism or an ""exclusionary ethics of place.&...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ;
15. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship Thinking and Acting in the Local and Global Commons; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Citizenship and Belonging; 1 Zora Neale Hurston and the Environmental Ethic of Risk; 2 Haitian Soil for the Citizen's Soul; 3 Intimate Cartographies: Navajo Ecological Citizenship, Soil Conservation, and Livestock Reduction; 4 Getting Back to an Imagined Nature:The Mannahatta Project and Environmental Justice; 5 The Oil Desert.
- 6 Japanese Roots in American Soil: National Belonging in David Mas Masumoto's Harvest Son and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's The Legend of Fire Horse WomanPart II Border Ecologies; 7 Our Nations and All Our Relations: Environmental Ethics in William S. Yellow Robe, Jr.'s The Council; 8 Preserving the Great White North: Migratory Birds, Italian Immigrants, and the Making of Ecological Citizenship across the U.S.-Canada Border, 1900-1924; 9 Boundaries of Violence: Water, Gender, and Development in Context; 10 U.S. Border Ecologies, Environmental Criticism, and Transnational American Studies.
- 11 Climate Justice and Trans-Pacific Indigenous FeminismsPart III Ecological Citizenship in Action; 12 Roots of Nativist Environmentalism in America's Eden; 13 Wielding Common Wealth in Washington, DC, and Eastern Kentucky: Creative Social Practice in Two Marginalized Communities; 14 Climate Justice Now! Imagining Grassroots Ecocosmopolitanism; 15 The Los Angeles Urban Rangers, Trailblazing the Commons; References; Contributors; Index.