Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability

In this book, Abby L. Goode reveals the foundations of American environmentalism and the enduring partnership between...
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Author: Abby L. Goode
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Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability by Goode, Abby L.

Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability

€231,40

Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability

€231,40
Author: Abby L. Goode
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
In this book, Abby L. Goode reveals the foundations of American environmentalism and the enduring partnership between racism, eugenics, and agrarian ideals in the United States. Throughout the nineteenth century, writers as diverse as Martin Delany, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Walt Whitman worried about unsustainable conditions such as population growth and plantation slavery. In response, they imagined agrotopias--sustainable societies unaffected by the nation's agricultural and population crises--elsewhere. Though seemingly progressive, these agrotopian visions depicted selective breeding and racial "improvement" as the path to environmental stability. In this fascinating study, Goode uncovers an early sustainability rhetoric interested in shaping, just as much as sustaining, the American population.

Showing how ideas about race and reproduction were central to early sustainability thinking, Goode unearths an alternative environmental archive that ranges from gothic novels to Black nationalist manifestos, from Waco, Texas, to the West Indies, from city tenements to White House kitchen gardens. Exposing the eugenic foundations of some of our most well-regarded environmental traditions, this book compels us to reexamine the benevolence of American environmental thought.



Author: Abby L. Goode
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 09/20/2022
Pages: 294
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9781469669816

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