Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance (Signs of Race)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: August 5, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780230602960
Subjects: American - General; Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism
Description: Drawing on theories of sublimity, trauma, and ecocriticism, this book examines how the often sharp division between European American and African American experiences of the natural world developed in American culture and history, and how those natural experiences, in turn, shaped the construction of race.