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Cultivating Environmental Justice : A Literary History of U.S. Garden Writing /
"While Michael Pollan and others have popularized ideas about how growing one's own food can help lead to environmental sustainability, environmental justice activists have pushed for more access to gardens and fresh food in impoverished communities. Now, Robert S. Emmett argues that mid-t...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The democratic roots of twentieth-century U.S. garden writing
- Postwar garden writing, literary cultivation, and environmentalism
- Being there, second nature, and the gardener as pragmatist
- Race, regionalism, and the emergence of environmental justice in Southern gardens
- Postindustrial America and the rise of community gardens
- Seeding new territories
- Epilogue. garden writing and a phenology of survival.