Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature.

• Superior document: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment Series
• Author: Klestil, Matthias.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (310 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: African American Environmental Knowledge at Niagara -- Foucauldian Environmental Knowledge -- Environmental Knowledge and Nineteenth-Century African American Literature -- Chapter Overview -- Works Cited -- Part I: Foundations: Antebellum African American Environmental Knowledge -- Chapter 2: Claiming (through) Space: Topographies of Enslavement, the Literary Heterotopia of the Underground Railroad, and the Co-agency of the Non-human -- The Underground Railroad as African American Literary Heterotopia -- Hermeneutics of Freedom and Co-Agency of the Non-Human -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: Resisting (through) the Eye: Antebellum Visual Regimes, the Slave Narrative's Rhetoric of Visibility, and African American Strategic Pastoral -- Antebellum Visual Regimes and the Slave Narrative's Rhetoric of Visibility -- African American Strategic Pastoral in the Fugitive Slave Narrative -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: Negotiating (through) the Skin: The Black Body, Pamphleteering, and African American Writing against Biological Exclusion -- The Black Body: Biological Exclusion and Environmental State of Exception -- The Antebellum Black Writer: Agitating against Biological Exclusion -- Birth and Blood -- Dissecting and Environmentalizing the Black Body -- Writing through "Nature" -- Works Cited -- Part II: Transformations: African American Environmental Knowledge from Reconstruction to Modernity -- Chapter 5: Transforming Space: Nature, Education, and Home in Charlotte Forten and William Wells Brown -- Charlotte Forten: Education and Home through the "Refuge of Nature" -- William Wells Brown: Environmental Knowledge between Nostalgia and Critique -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: Transforming Vision: The Pastoral, the Georgic, and Evolutionary Thought in Booker T. Washington.

The Changed Parameters of Washington's Environmental Knowledge -- From Strategic Pastoral to Georgic -- Washington's Environmental Knowledge and Evolutionary Thought -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7: Transforming the Politics of the Black Body: Trans-corporeality, Epistemological Resistance, and Spencerism in Charles W. Chesnutt -- The Trans-corporeal Black Body: Chesnutt's Environmental Knowledge -- Epistemological Resistance: Chesnutt's Philosophy of Environmental Knowledge -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: African American Environmental Knowledge at Yellowstone -- Works Cited -- Index.