Coral Lives : : Literature, Labor, and the Making of America / / Michele Currie Navakas.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• VerfasserIn: Navakas, Michele Currie,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 10 color. 34 b/w illus.

A literary and cultural history of coral—as an essential element of the marine ecosystem, a personal ornament, a global commodity, and a powerful political metaphorToday, coral and the human-caused threats to coral reef ecosystems symbolize our ongoing planetary crisis. In the nineteenth century, co...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction
• 1. The Global Biography of Early American Coral
• 2. “Labors of the Coral”
• 3. Fathomless Forms of Life
• 4. Coral Collectives
• 5. Red Coral, Black Atlantic
• Coda. Coral Temporalities
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index