The Cambridge companion to American literature and the environment /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Ensor, Sarah, 1982- (Editor), Parrish, Susan Scott (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2022].
Series:	Cambridge companions to literature.
Subjects:	Environmental literature > United States > History and criticism. Ecocriticism > United States. Environmentalism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.

Table of Contents:

Scenes of human diminishment in early American natural history / Christoph Irmscher
Slavery and the anthropocene / Paul Outka
(In)conceivable futures: Henry David Thoreau and reproduction's queer ecology / Sarah Ensor
Narrating animal extinction from the pleistocene to the anthropocene / Timothy Sweet
Pastoral reborn in the anthropocene: Henry David Thoreau to Kyle Powys Whyte / Wai Chee Dimock
The heat of modernity: The great Gatsby as petrofiction / Harilaos Stecopoulos
Children in transit/ children in peril: the contemporary US novel in a time of climate crisis / Min Hyoung Song
Meta-critical climate change fiction: Claire Vaye Watkins's Gold fame citrus / Rick Crownshaw
Junk food for thought: decolonizing diets in Tommy Pico's poetry / Nicole Seymour
Tender woods: looking for the Black outdoors with Dawoud Bey / Susan Scott Parrish
Urban narrative and the futures of biodiversity / Ursula Heise
Japanese American incarceration and the turn to earth: looking for a man named Komako in Bad day at Black Rock / Mika Kennedy
Leisure over Labor: Latino outdoors and the production of a Latinx outdoor recreation identity / Sarah D. Wald
Sanctuary: literature and the colonial politics of protection / Matt Hooley
The queer restoration poetics of Audre Lorde / Angela Hume.