American environmental literature has relied heavily on the perspectives of European Americans, often ignoring other groups. In "Black on Earth," Kimberly Ruffin expands the reach of ecocriticism by analyzing the ecological experiences, conceptions, and desires seen in African American writing.
Ruffin identifies a theory of "ecological burden and beauty" in which African American authors underscore the ecological burdens of living within human hierarchies in the social order just as they explore the ecological beauty of being a part of the natural order. Blacks were ecological agents...
American environmental literature has relied heavily on the perspectives of European Americans, often ignoring other groups. In "Black on Earth," K...
American environmental literature has relied heavily on the perspectives of European Americans, often ignoring other groups. In "Black on Earth," Kimberly Ruffin expands the reach of ecocriticism by analyzing the ecological experiences, conceptions, and desires seen in African American writing.
Ruffin identifies a theory of "ecological burden and beauty" in which African American authors underscore the ecological burdens of living within human hierarchies in the social order just as they explore the ecological beauty of being a part of the natural order. Blacks were ecological agents...
American environmental literature has relied heavily on the perspectives of European Americans, often ignoring other groups. In "Black on Earth," K...
