| Series | Southern literary studies
Southern literary studies. ^A17900 |
| Contents |
COVER; CONTENTS; Introduction: Southern Studies in the Age of the Anthropocene; I COAL, OIL, & SOUTHERN HAZARDSCAPES; Stuck in Place: Affect, Atmosphere, and the Appalachian World of Ann Pancake; Plantation Pasts and the Petrochemical Present: Energy Culture, the Gulf Coast, and Petrochemical America; Ogling Offshore Oil: Vision and Knowledge in Midcentury Gulf of Mexico Films; II ROUTES, ROADS, & THE RHIZOMATIC SOUTH; "So Many Strange Plants" Race and Environment in John Muir's A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf; Country Roads: Mountain Journeys in the Anthropocene |
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"Home Is Where the Hatred Is": Gil Scott-Heron's Toxic Domestic Spaces and the Rhizomatic SouthIII FARMING & FOODWAYS; Faulkner's Ecologies and the Legacy of the Nashville Agrarians; Southern Foodways and Visceral Environmentalism; IV FLOODS & SOUTHERN WATER STUDIES; Refrigerators, Mosquitoes, and Phosphates: The Environmental Rhetoric of David E. Lilienthal; Flooding Mississippi: Memory, Race, and Landscape in Twenty-First-Century Fiction; "I Want My City Back!": The Boundaries of the Katrina Diaspora |
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The Universe Unraveled: Swampy Embeddedness and Ecological Apocalypse in Beasts of the Southern WildV ECO-DYSTOPIAS; Grave Nature: Caroline Lee Hentz's Dead Slaves and the Eco-dystopia of the Old South; Sexual Assault and the Rape of Nature in Child of God and Deliverance; Florida Man: Climatological Racism and Internal Homonationalismin US Political Satire; New Orleans in the Twenty-Second Century; Afterwor(l)d: The Future in the Present; Contributors; Index |
| Abstract |
As the planet faces ever-worsening disruptions to global ecosystems'carbon and chemical emissions, depletions of the ozone layer, the loss of biodiversity, rising sea levels, air toxification, and worsening floods and droughts'scholars across academia must examine the cultural effects of this increasingly postnatural world. That task proves especially vital for southern studies, given how often the U.S. South serves as a site for large-scale damming initiatives like the TVA, disasters on the scale of Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon spill, and the extraction of coal, oil, and natural gas. Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies is the first book-length collection of scholarship that applies interdisciplinary environmental humanities research to cultural analyses of the U.S. South. Sixteen essays examine novels, nature writing, films, television, and music that address a broad range of ecological topics related to the region, including climate change, manmade and natural environments, the petroleum industry, food cultures, waterways, natural and human-induced disasters, waste management, and the Anthropocene. Edited by Zackary Vernon, this volume demonstrates how the greening of southern studies, in tandem with the southernization of environmental studies, can catalyze alternative ways of understanding the connections between regional and global cultures and landscapes. By addressing ecological issues central to life throughout the South, Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies considers the confluence between region and environment, while also illustrating the growing need to see environmental issues as matters of social justice. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO ; viewed June 24, 2019) |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN | 9780807172100 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0807172103 (electronic bk.) |
