Race and Nature From Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance
ISBN: 9781137361059
Platform/Publisher: EBSCO eBooks / Palgrave Macmillan
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: limited; Download: limited
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General;

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.

Paul Outka is an associate professor of English at the University of Kansas. He is the vice-president and president-elect of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, 2012-2013. He has lectured and published articles on American poetry, African American literature, ecocriticism, critical race theory, and the posthuman.


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