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Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies /
"Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies is the first book-length collection of scholarship that applies interdisciplinary environmental studies research to cultural analyses of the U.S. South. The essays analyze novels, nature writing, films, television, and music that address a broad...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Southern studies in the age of the Anthropocene / Zackary Vernon
- Coal, oil, and southern hazardscapes. Stuck in place: affect, atmosphere, and the Appalachian world of Ann Pancake / Lisa Hinrichsen ; Plantation pasts and the petrochemical present: energy culture, the Gulf Coast, and petrochemical America / Delia Byrnes ; Ogling offshore oil: vision and knowledge in midcentury Gulf of Mexico films / Ila Tyagi
- Routes, roads, and the rhizomatic South. "So many strange plants": race and environment in John Muir's a thousand-mile walk to the Gulf / Scott Obernesser ; Country roads: mountain journeys in the Anthropocene / Jimmy Dean Smith ; "Home is where the hatred is": Gil Scott-Heron's toxic domestic spaces and the rhizomatic South / Joseph M. Thompson
- Farming and foodways. Faulkner's ecologies and the legacy of the Nashville Agrarians / Sam Horrocks ; Southern foodways and visceral environmentalism / Daniel Spoth
- Floods and southern water studies. Refrigerators, Mosquitoes, and Phosphates: The Environmental Rhetoric of David E. Lilienthal / Lucas J. Sheaffer ; Flooding Mississippi: Memory, Race, and Landscape in Twenty-First-Century Fiction / Christopher Lloyd ; "I Want My City Back!": The Boundaries of the Katrina Diaspora / Evangelia Kindinger ; The Universe Unraveled: Swampy Embeddedness and Ecological Apocalypse in Beasts of the Southern Wild / Sarah E. McFarland
- Eco-dystopias. Grave Nature: Caroline Lee Hentz's Dead Slaves and the Eco-dystopia of the Old South / Joshua Myers ; Sexual Assault and the Rape of Nature in Child of God and Deliverance / Jonathan Villalobos ; Florida Man: Climatological Racism and Internal Homonationalism in US Political Satire / John Moran ; New Orleans in the Twenty-Second Century / Robert Azzarello
- Afterword: The Future in the Present / Jay Watson.