The (Neo)Slave Narrative and the Plantationocene
Dr. Teresa Goddu, Vanderbilt University
Feb. 26, 2021
12pm-2pm via Zoom: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/96477704328
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African American literature—very little of which is read as climate fiction—has long articulated the intersections between plantation slavery’s environmental and racial regimes and, more recently, traced the plantation’s ecological and social histories directly to the climate crisis. This essay looks to the slave narrative and the contemporary neo-slave narrative to trace the long history of the Plantationocene as well as the alternative ecologies of resistance and repair this literature encodes.
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