Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies (eBook)

Zackary Vernon (Herausgeber)

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2019
301 Seiten
LSU Press (Verlag)
978-0-8071-7210-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

lt;p>Zackary Vernon is assistant professor of English at Appalachian State University and the coeditor of Summoning the Dead: Essays on Ron Rash.

Jay Watson is the Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies at the University of Mississippi, where he directs the annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. He is the author of several books, including Reading for the Body: The Recalcitrant Materiality of Southern Fiction, 1893–1985.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.8.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Southern Literary Studies
• Co-Autor: Robert Azzarello, Delia Byrnes, Lisa Hinrichsen, Sam Horrocks, Evangelia Kindinger, Christopher Lloyd, Sarah McFarland, John Moran, Joshua Myers, Scott Obernesser, Lucas Sheaffer, Jimmy Dean Smith, Daniel Spoth, Joseph Thompson, Ila Tyagi, Jonathan Villalobos
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): Scott Romine
• Nachwort: Jay Watson
• Verlagsort: Baton Rouge
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Agrarianism • Ann Pancake • Anthropocene • apocalyptic narrative • Beasts of the Southern Wild • Caroline Lee Hentz • Child of God • cli-fi • climate fiction • Cormac McCarthy • David E. Lilienthal • Deliverance • Diaspora • ecocritical approach • eco-dystopia • ecological criticism • ecology in literature • environmental catastrophes in fiction • Environmentalism • environmental justice • Environmental Racism • Environmental Studies • films about the oil industry • flooding in the South • Florida Man meme • Foodways • Gil Scott-Heron • Gulf of Mexico • Gulf South • Hellfighters • Hurricane Katrina • James Dickey • John Muir • Katie Ford • Katrina narratives • Louisiana Story • Moira Crone • Nashville Agrarians • New Orleans • New Southern Studies • offshore oil drilling • Oil Industry • Petrochemical America • Plantations • Rhizomes • Southern foodways • southern swamps • swamps • the american south • The Anthropocene • the Gulf South • the Mississippi River • Thunder Bay • Valerie Martin • water studies • William Faulkner
• ISBN-10: 0-8071-7210-3 / 0807172103
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-7210-0 / 9780807172100