Erosion: American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance by Caison, Gina
Erosion: American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance by Caison, Gina

Erosion: American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance

In Erosion, Gina Caison traces how American authors and photographers have grappled with soil erosion as a...
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Author: Gina Caison
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Language: English
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Erosion: American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance by Caison, Gina

Erosion: American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance

$114.54
Erosion: American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance by Caison, Gina

Erosion: American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance

$114.54
Author: Gina Caison
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
In Erosion, Gina Caison traces how American authors and photographers have grappled with soil erosion as a material reality that shapes narratives of identity, belonging, and environment. Examining canonical American texts and photography, including John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Octavia Butler's Parable series, John Audubon's Louisiana writings, and Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother, Caison shows how concerns over erosion reveal anxieties of disappearance that are based in the legacies of settler colonialism. Soil loss not only occupies a complex metaphorical place in the narrative of American identity; it becomes central to preserving the white settler colonial state through Indigenous dispossession and erasure. At the same time, Caison examines how Indigenous texts and art such as Lynn Riggs's play Green Grow the Lilacs, Karenne Wood's poetry, and Monique Verdin's photography challenge colonial narratives of the continent by outlining the material stakes of soil loss for their own communities. From California to Oklahoma to North Carolina's Outer Banks, Caison ultimately demonstrates that concerns over erosion reverberate into issues of climate change, land ownership, Indigenous sovereignty, race, and cultural and national identity.

Author: Gina Caison
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 11/08/2024
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781478031161

About the Author
Gina Caison is Kenneth M. England Associate Professor of Southern Literature at Georgia State University, author of Red States: Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Southern Studies, and coeditor of Remediating Region: New Media and the U.S. South.
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