Book contents
- Nature and Literary Studies
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Nature and Literary Studies
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Development
- Part III Applications
- Chapter 14 Nature, Gender, Sexuality
- Chapter 15 Nature and Race
- Chapter 16 The Nature of Animality
- Chapter 17 Cultivating Nature
- Chapter 18 Narrating Nature
- Chapter 19 Digital Nature
- Chapter 20 Toxic Nature
- Chapter 21 Messages from Within
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 15 - Nature and Race
from Part III - Applications
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2022
- Nature and Literary Studies
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Nature and Literary Studies
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Development
- Part III Applications
- Chapter 14 Nature, Gender, Sexuality
- Chapter 15 Nature and Race
- Chapter 16 The Nature of Animality
- Chapter 17 Cultivating Nature
- Chapter 18 Narrating Nature
- Chapter 19 Digital Nature
- Chapter 20 Toxic Nature
- Chapter 21 Messages from Within
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
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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- Nature and Literary Studies , pp. 280 - 295Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022