Agrotopias : an American literary history of sustainability / Abby L. Goode.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goode, Abby L., author.

Series:

North Carolina scholarship online.

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmentalism in literature.

Agriculture in literature.

Eugenics in literature.

Racism in literature.

Sustainable agriculture--United States--History.

Sustainable agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]

Summary:

Showing how ideas about race and reproduction were central to early sustainability thinking, Abby Goode unearths an alternative environmental archive that ranges from gothic novels to Black nationalist manifestos, from Waco, Texas, to the West Indies, from city tenements to White House kitchen gardens.

Contents:

No rural bowl of milk: unsustainability and the demographic agrarian ideal

Gothic fertility and other tropical nightmares: Jefferson, Crevecoeur, Sansay

African agrotopias: sustaining Black nationalism beyond U.S. borders

Sustainable sprawl: Whitman's eugenic agrarianism

Asexual sustainability in "Herland"

Agrotopian legacies.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 29, 2023).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908613-3-7

979-88-908613-4-4

1-4696-6983-8

1-4696-6984-6

OCLC:

1342502893