Inhabitants of the deep : the blueness of blackness / Jonathan Howard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howard, Jonathan, 1989- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Black outdoors

Black outdoors: innovations in the poetics of study

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Ecocriticism.

African Americans in literature.

African diaspora in literature.

Water in literature.

Sea in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 322 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Inhabitants of the Deep undertakes a black ecocritical study of the "deep" in African Diaspora life and literature, illuminating the enduring relationship between Blackness and the oceanic. Investigating Black literary tradition's origins in encounters with the Middle Passage, Jonathan Howard demonstrates how the sustained focus on social death can obscure other understandings of Black ecological life stirring in the deep. Howard uses examples from across literature and history, exploring destabilizing interactions with the ocean through readings of works by authors from Equiano to August Wilson. Rethinking afropessimism through a blue humanities lens, this book makes us think differently about landedness and the deep in what will be a lasting contribution to Black thought, offering a path to a better relation to the planet"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Blueness of Blackness

The Deep

Deep Humanities

Deep Study

Deep Voice

Deep Imagination

Deep Life

Deep Vision

Ankle Deep

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Howard, Jonathan, 1989- Inhabitants of the deep.

ISBN:

9781478061489

1478061480

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.