Ruin and Resilience
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Ruin and Resilience

Southern Literature and the Environment

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Ruin and Resilience

Southern Literature and the Environment

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In Ruin and Resilience, Daniel Spoth confronts why the environmental stories told about the U.S. South curve inevitably toward distressing plotlines. Examining more than a dozen works of postbellum literature and cinema, Spoth's analysis winds from John Muir's walking journey across the war-torn South, through the troubling of southern environmentalism's modernity by Faulkner and Hurston, past the accounts of its acceleration in Welty and O'Connor, and finally into the present, uncovering how the tragic econarrative is transformed by contemporary food studies, climate fiction, and speculative tales inspired by the region. Phrased as a reaction to the rising temperatures and swelling sea levels in the South, Ruin and Resilience conceptualizes an environmental, ecocritical ethos for the southern United States that takes account of its fundamentally vulnerable status and navigates the space between its reactionary politics and its ecological failures.

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Publisher
LSU Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9780807180037
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
North American Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. CONTENTS
  6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  7. INTRODUCTION: Against Ruin
  8. ONE. The Region in Ruins: William Faulkner and Natasha Trethewey
  9. TWO. Resilient Routes: Infrastructure and Loss in Eudora Welty and Flannery O’Connor
  10. THREE. Of Yams and Canned Pasta: Southern Foodways as Discourse in Toni Morrison and Fannie Flagg
  11. FOUR. Leaving the Ruins: Mobility and Southern Disaster-Narratives in Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, and Beasts of the Southern Wild
  12. FIVE. Glimpses of the Whole: Climate Fiction and Resilience in the Remnant South
  13. SIX. No Straight Lines in Nature: The Fantasy of Return in Postapocalyptic Southern Literature
  14. CONCLUSION: Against Resilience
  15. NOTES
  16. WORKS CITED
  17. INDEX