Gina Caison: Erosion | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781478031161 | Erosion | American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance

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Beschreibung

In Erosion, Gina Caison traces how American authors and photographers have grappled with soil erosion as a material reality that shapes narratives of identity, belonging, and environment. Examining canonical American texts and photography, including John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Octavia Butler's Parable series, John Audubon's Louisiana writings, and Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother, Caison shows how concerns over erosion reveal anxieties of disappearance that are based in the legacies of settler colonialism. Soil loss not only occupies a complex metaphorical place in the narrative of American identity; it becomes central to preserving the white settler colonial state through Indigenous dispossession and erasure. At the same time, Caison examines how Indigenous texts and art such as Lynn Riggs's play Green Grow the Lilacs, Karenne Wood's poetry, and Monique Verdin's photography challenge colonial narratives of the continent by outlining the material stakes of soil loss for their own communities. From California to Oklahoma to North Carolina's Outer Banks, Caison ultimately demonstrates that concerns over erosion reverberate into issues of climate change, land ownership, Indigenous sovereignty, race, and cultural and national identity.

Über den Autor

Gina Caison is Kenneth M. England Associate Professor of Southern Literature at Georgia State University, author of Red States: Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Southern Studies, and coeditor of Remediating Region: New Media and the U.S. South.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Erosion 1
1. Landslides and Horizons of the West 29
2. Surfaces and Allotments of the Heartland 68
3. Disappearing Grounds and Backgrounds of the Gulf 107
4. Gullies and Removals of the Plantation South 141
5. Littoral Cells and Literal Sells of the Atlantic 177
Conclusion: What We Talk About When We Talk About Erosion 209
Notes 221
Bibliography 251
Index 271

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Importe , Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781478031161
ISBN-10:	1478031166
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Caison, Gina
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Gina Caison
Erscheinungsdatum:	08.11.2024
Gewicht:	0,506 kg

Artikel-ID: 128618243

Über den Autor

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Importe , Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781478031161
ISBN-10:	1478031166
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Caison, Gina
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Gina Caison
Erscheinungsdatum:	08.11.2024
Gewicht:	0,506 kg