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Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance /

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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 o...

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Main Author: Outka, Paul (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Series:Signs of race.
Subjects:
Literature.
Cultural Theory.
Ethnicity Studies.
Literary Theory.
North American Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Ethnicity.
Literature > Philosophy.
Literature, Modern > 20th century.
America > Literatures.
Electronic books.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XIII, 266 pages)
ISBN:9780230614499
DOI:10.1007/978-0-230-61449-9