The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Environment - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Figures

pp ix-ix

Contributors

pp x-xiii

Acknowledgments

pp xiv-xiv

A Note on the Cover Image

pp xv-xvi

Introduction

pp 1-12

Part I - Environmental Histories

pp 13-78

Chapter 1 - Scenes of Human Diminishment in Early American Natural History

pp 15-28

Chapter 2 - Slavery and the Anthropocene

pp 29-43

Chapter 3 - (In)conceivable Futures: Henry David Thoreau and Reproduction’s Queer Ecology

pp 44-55

Chapter 4 - Narrating Animal Extinction from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene

pp 56-66

Chapter 5 - Pastoral Reborn in the Anthropocene: Henry David Thoreau to Kyle Powys Whyte

pp 67-78

Part II - Environmental Genres and Media

pp 79-144

Chapter 6 - The Heat of Modernity: The Great Gatsby as Petrofiction

pp 81-92

Chapter 7 - Children in Transit / Children in Peril: The Contemporary US Novel in a Time of Climate Crisis

pp 93-104

Chapter 8 - Meta-Critical Climate Change Fiction: Claire Vaye Watkins’s Gold Fame Citrus

pp 105-119

Chapter 9 - Junk Food for Thought: Decolonizing Diets in Tommy Pico’s Poetry

pp 120-132

Chapter 10 - Tender Woods: Looking for the Black Outdoors with Dawoud Bey

pp 133-144

Part III - Environmental Spaces, Environmental Methods

pp 145-221

Chapter 11 - Urban Narrative and the Futures of Biodiversity

pp 147-160

Chapter 12 - Japanese American Incarceration and the Turn to Earth: Looking for a Man Named Komako in Bad Day at Black Rock

pp 161-174

Chapter 13 - Leisure over Labor: Latino Outdoors and the Production of a Latinx Outdoor Recreation Identity

pp 175-188

Chapter 14 - Sanctuary: Literature and the Colonial Politics of Protection

pp 189-203

Chapter 15 - The Queer Restoration Poetics of Audre Lorde

pp 204-221

Notes

pp 222-271

Index

pp 272-279