{"product_id":"cultivation-and-catastrophe-the-lyric-ecology-of-modern-black-literature-paperback","title":"Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSonya Posmentier\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA transformative literary history of black environmental writing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner, William Sanders Scarborough Prize by the Modern Language Association\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body of Black literary response to natural and agricultural experiences, whether the legacy of enforced agricultural labor or the destruction and displacement brought about by a hurricane. In \u003ci\u003eCultivation and Catastrophe\u003c\/i\u003e, Sonya Posmentier uncovers a vivid diasporic tradition of Black environmental writing that responds to the aftermath of plantation slavery, urbanization, and free and forced migrations. While humanist discourses of African American and postcolonial studies often sustain a line between nature and culture, this book instead emphasizes the relationship between them, offering an innovative environmental history of modern black literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner, William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body of black literary response to natural and agricultural experiences, whether the legacy of enforced agricultural labor or the destruction and displacement brought about by a hurricane. In \u003ci\u003eCultivation and Catastrophe\u003c\/i\u003e, Sonya Posmentier uncovers a vivid diasporic tradition of black environmental writing that responds to the aftermath of plantation slavery, urbanization, and free and forced migrations. While humanist discourses of African American and postcolonial studies often sustain a line between nature and culture, this book instead emphasizes the relationship between them, offering an innovative environmental history of modern black literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe black optimism that animates Posmentier's writing is also a prominent feature of the poems, songs, and works of visual art that she takes up as her primary objects of concern. Yet there is also, alongside this optimism, the ever-present specter of the end of the world--one that operates, always, right alongside the countless new worlds that black art necessarily engenders--which demands our attention.--Joshua Bennett, Dartmouth College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonya Posmentier's \u003ci\u003eCultivation and Catastrophe\u003c\/i\u003e feels urgent and contemporary even as its turn to black lyric asks readers to pause, sound out, and reflect on a long history of poetic engagement with ecological catastrophe, forced migration, and the afterlife of the plantation.--Britt Rusert, University of Massachusetts Amherst\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is much to admire in this wide-ranging and carefully researched study. In particular, its close attention to poetic form represents a valuable contribution to postcolonial ecocriticism, which has tended to focus more on narrative genres.--\u003ci\u003eReview of English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePosmentier's monograph is a much-needed contribution to both the new lyric studies and ecopoetics, two fields that, until recently, have focused more often than not on the writings and methods of white European and American poets and critics.--\u003ci\u003eContemporary Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe capaciousness with which Posmentier approaches the lyric is generative, especially in light of environmental criticism's recent wave of poetry scholarship . . . groundbreaking.--\u003ci\u003eInterdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e--Margo Natalie Crawford, Cornell University, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eNew Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement\u003c\/i\u003e \"Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment\"\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner, William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body of black literary response to natural and agricultural experiences, whether the legacy of enforced agricultural labor or the destruction and displacement brought about by a hurricane. In \u003ci\u003eCultivation and Catastrophe\u003c\/i\u003e, Sonya Posmentier uncovers a vivid diasporic tradition of black environmental writing that responds to the aftermath of plantation slavery, urbanization, and free and forced migrations. While humanist discourses of African American and postcolonial studies often sustain a line between nature and culture, this book instead emphasizes the relationship between them, offering an innovative environmental history of modern black literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The black optimism that animates Posmentier's writing is also a prominent feature of the poems, songs, and works of visual art that she takes up as her primary objects of concern. Yet there is also, alongside this optimism, the ever-present specter of the end of the world--one that operates, always, right alongside the countless new worlds that black art necessarily engenders--which demands our attention.\"--Joshua Bennett, Dartmouth College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sonya Posmentier's \u003ci\u003eCultivation and Catastrophe\u003c\/i\u003e feels urgent and contemporary even as its turn to black lyric asks readers to pause, sound out, and reflect on a long history of poetic engagement with ecological catastrophe, forced migration, and the afterlife of the plantation.\"--Britt Rusert, University of Massachusetts Amherst\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There is much to admire in this wide-ranging and carefully researched study. In particular, its close attention to poetic form represents a valuable contribution to postcolonial ecocriticism, which has tended to focus more on narrative genres.\"--\u003ci\u003eReview of English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Posmentier's monograph is a much-needed contribution to both the new lyric studies and ecopoetics, two fields that, until recently, have focused more often than not on the writings and methods of white European and American poets and critics.\"--\u003ci\u003eContemporary Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The capaciousness with which Posmentier approaches the lyric is generative, especially in light of environmental criticism's recent wave of poetry scholarship . . . groundbreaking.\"--\u003ci\u003eInterdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSonya Posmentier \u003c\/b\u003eis an associate professor of English at New York University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 03, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703573901619,"sku":"9781421437934","price":63.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Q3lkRTU2N1hhVlhzUytvV2VqSTVFQT09.webp?v=1763330424","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/cultivation-and-catastrophe-the-lyric-ecology-of-modern-black-literature-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}