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.