Captive ecologies : the environmental afterlives of slavery / Jennifer C. James.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

James, Jennifer C., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Ecocriticism.

Environmentalism in literature.

Ecology in literature.

Ecology in art.

Environmentalism in art.

African American artists.

Place of Publication:

Duke University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Captive Ecologies seeks to demonstrate how attentive readings of Black literature and art in slavery's aftermath open new modes of ecocriticism while expanding our ideas of what kinds of literature and art "count" as environmental. At the same time, the book attends to the harm racial capitalism does to Black people and the human and non-human worlds they inhabit. Jennifer C. James looks to a range of case studies and media from the 20th and 21st century, including Black music and ecopoetics, African American literature and biography, and Black feminist art, tracing the various ways that the environmental stakes of racial capitalism have shaped the Black ecological imagination"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"Environmental Afterlives"

Ecomelancholia: Life, Land, and Unrenewable Loss

"Buried in Guano": Race, Labor, and Sustainability

Dyspossession: Abolitionist Ecology and the Black Commons

Souls on Ice: Matthew Henson's Arctic Modernities

A Theory of the Bottom: Black Ecofeminism as Politics

Toward a Black Trans* Ecology.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-4780-6254-1