Christine M Battista, Melissa R Sande

Literary Feminist Ecologies of American and Caribbean Expansionism

Errand into the Wilderness

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Produktbeschreibung

This book synthesizes ecofeminist theory, American studies, and postcolonial theory to interrogate what New Americanist William V. Spanos articulates as the "errand into the wilderness". It will be a significant discussion text for students, scholars and researchers in environmental humanities, ecofeminism, and postcolonial studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781032230115
• ISBN-10: 1032230118
• Artikelnr.: 67681094

Autorenporträt

Christine M. Battista is Instructional Design Specialist at Sierra Space and an independent scholar in Denver, U.S.A. Melissa R. Sande is Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Humanities at Union College of Union County, NJ, U.S.A.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Ecologies of Exception: Gender
Race
and the Eco-Imperial Imaginary in the Caribbean and American Literature and Culture 2. Ecologies of Racism: A Genealogy of Black Feminisms in American Slavery 3. Nomadic Ecologies
Race
and Female Masculinities: Willa Cather's Conflicted Land Ethics and Civilizing Science in O Pioneers! 4. Errand of American Expansionism: The Intersections of Violence
Women's Bodies
and Natural Space in the Novels of Edwidge Danticat 5. "Pecola and the Unyielding Earth": Exclusionary Cartographies
Transgenerational Trauma
and Racialized Dispossession in The Bluest Eye 6. "A Hurricane Ravaging the Island": An Examination of Blackness
Witchcraft
and Feminist Alterity in Maryse Condé's I
Tituba
Black Witch of Salem 7. Mapping the Counter-Errand: Feminist Agential Ecologies in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms 8. Conclusion