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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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Autor principal: Posmentier, Sonya, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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
  • NotesBibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z