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Chapter 15 - Nature and Race

from Part III - Applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2022

Peter Remien
Affiliation:
Lewis-Clark State College, Idaho
Scott Slovic
Affiliation:
University of Idaho
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In “Nature and Race,” John Gamber examines the role that ideas of nature and the natural have played in the construction of race through legal, economic, and pseudo-scientific discourses, as well as the increasing prominence of Black, Latinx, and Asian American voices in contemporary ecocriticism and environmental writing. Gamber points out that “the construction of nature writing as a white genre relies on multiple erasures” and turns to the work of Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Carolyn Finney, Laura Pulido, Jeffrey Myers, Dorothy Fujita-Rony, and many others to construct alternative genealogies of ecocriticism and environmental literature that do not privilege white voices. The chapter ends by engaging emergent scholarship in oceanic studies to posit fluidity as a better metaphor for thinking about nature and human life.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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