Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies / edited by Zackary Vernon ; afterword by Jay Watson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vernon, Zackary, editor.

Series:

Southern literary studies.

Southern literary studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ökologie--Motiv.

Ökologie.

Literatur.

Literature.

Environmental degradation in literature.

Ecology in literature.

Ecocriticism.

American literature.

American literature--Southern States--History and criticism.

Ecocriticism--Southern States.

United States--Südstaaten.

United States.

Southern States.

Southern States--In literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 pages).

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies is the first book-length collection of scholarship that applies interdisciplinary environmental studies research to cultural analyses of the U.S. South. The essays analyze novels, nature writing, films, television, and music that address a broad range of environmental topics related to the South, including climate change, built and natural environments, the petroleum industry, food cultures, waterways, natural disasters, dystopian climate fiction (eco-dystopias), and the Anthropocene. Edited by Zackary Vernon, this collection demonstrates how the greening of southern studies can catalyze alternative ways of seeing the region and its places and spaces. By addressing ecological issues central to life throughout the South, Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies confronts the confluences between regional and environmental concerns, while also illustrating the need to see environmental issues as matters of social justice"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Southern studies in the age of the Anthropocene / Zackary Vernon

Coal, oil, and southern hazardscapes. Stuck in place: affect, atmosphere, and the Appalachian world of Ann Pancake / Lisa Hinrichsen ; Plantation pasts and the petrochemical present: energy culture, the Gulf Coast, and petrochemical America / Delia Byrnes ; Ogling offshore oil: vision and knowledge in midcentury Gulf of Mexico films / Ila Tyagi

Routes, roads, and the rhizomatic South. "So many strange plants": race and environment in John Muir's a thousand-mile walk to the Gulf / Scott Obernesser ; Country roads: mountain journeys in the Anthropocene / Jimmy Dean Smith ; "Home is where the hatred is": Gil Scott-Heron's toxic domestic spaces and the rhizomatic South / Joseph M. Thompson

Farming and foodways. Faulkner's ecologies and the legacy of the Nashville Agrarians / Sam Horrocks ; Southern foodways and visceral environmentalism / Daniel Spoth

Floods and southern water studies. Refrigerators, Mosquitoes, and Phosphates: The Environmental Rhetoric of David E. Lilienthal / Lucas J. Sheaffer ; Flooding Mississippi: Memory, Race, and Landscape in Twenty-First-Century Fiction / Christopher Lloyd ; "I Want My City Back!": The Boundaries of the Katrina Diaspora / Evangelia Kindinger ; The Universe Unraveled: Swampy Embeddedness and Ecological Apocalypse in Beasts of the Southern Wild / Sarah E. McFarland

Eco-dystopias. Grave Nature: Caroline Lee Hentz's Dead Slaves and the Eco-dystopia of the Old South / Joshua Myers ; Sexual Assault and the Rape of Nature in Child of God and Deliverance / Jonathan Villalobos ; Florida Man: Climatological Racism and Internal Homonationalism in US Political Satire / John Moran ; New Orleans in the Twenty-Second Century / Robert Azzarello

Afterword: The Future in the Present / Jay Watson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780807172100

9780807172094

OCLC:

1105557062