{"product_id":"converging-stories-race-ecology-and-environmental-justice-in-american-literature-hardcover","title":"Converging Stories: Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJeffrey Myers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn American literature, our discourse on the themes of race and ecology is too narrowly focused on the twentieth century and does not adequately take into account how these themes are interrelated, argues Jeffrey Myers. His new study broadens the field by looking at writings from the nineteenth century. This was an era, Myers reminds us, of renewed violence and oppression against people of color and of unprecedented environmental destruction on a continental scale. Myers focuses particularly on works that engage the notion that white racism and alienation from nature sprang from a common source. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMyers first discusses the paradox of Thomas Jefferson's agrarian vision, by which ideas espoused in his \u003ci\u003eNotes on the State of Virginia\u003c\/i\u003e can support either environmental destruction or conservation, a democratic or a racist society. Next, by looking race-critically at Thoreau's \u003ci\u003eWalden\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Maine Woods\u003c\/i\u003e, then ecocritically at Charles Chesnutt's \u003ci\u003eThe Conjure Woman\u003c\/i\u003e and Zitkala-Sa's \u003ci\u003eOld Indian Legends\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Indian Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, Myers traces the development of a new resistance to racial and ecological hegemony. He concludes by discussing how the antiracist, egalitarian ecocentricity in these earlier writers can be seen in contemporary writer Eddy L. Harris's \u003ci\u003eMississippi Solo\u003c\/i\u003e. Myers's discussion encompasses other authors as well, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir, and Willa Cather. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy looking at works by Native Americans, African Americans, European Americans, and others, and by considering forms of literature beyond the traditional nature essay, Myers expands our conceptions of environmental writing and environmental justice.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJEFFREY MYERS is a professor of English at Manhattan College, where he teaches nineteenth-century American literature and environmental literature with an emphasis on environmental justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.73 x 9.36 x 6.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 29, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51817205072160,"sku":"9780820327440","price":82.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d7246ebc7f144c58242294a868063908.webp?v=1781098142","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/converging-stories-race-ecology-and-environmental-justice-in-american-literature-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}