Race And Nature From Transcendentalism To The Harlem Renaissance Book

List of Illustrations

1 Introduction: The Sublime and the Traumatic 1

2 The Colonial Pastoral, Abolition, and the Transcendentalist Sublime 27

3 "Behold a Man Transformed into a Brute": Slavery and Antebellum Nature 51

4 Trauma, Postbellum Nostalgia, and the Lost Pastoral 81

5 Trauma and Metamorphosis in Charles Chesnutt's Conjure Tales 103

6 Strange Fruit 127

7 White Flight 151

8 Migrations 174

Coda: Prospects tor an Antiracist Ecological Sublime 201

Notes 205

Works Cited 245

Index 261