Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance

1. Introduction: The Sublime and the Traumatic
Paul Outka

2. The Colonial Pastoral, Abolition, and the Transcendentalist Sublime
Paul Outka

3. “Behold a Man Transformed into a Brute”: Slavery and Antebellum Nature
Paul Outka

4. Trauma, Postbellum Nostalgia, and the Lost Pastoral
Paul Outka

5. Trauma and Metamorphosis in Charles Chesnutt’s Conjure Tales
Paul Outka

6. Strange Fruit
Paul Outka

7. White Flight
Paul Outka

8. Migrations
Paul Outka

9. Coda: Prospects for an Antiracist Ecological Sublime
Paul Outka

Keywords: Literature, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Ethnicity Studies