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California Native Studies
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Chesapeake Bay
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critical regional studies
Dawes Act 1887
Deborah Miranda
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Dorothea Lange
Dust Bowl
Earl Swift
Eastern Seaboard
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erosion
George Washington Cable
Gone With the Wind 1936
Hugh Morton
Indian Removal Act 1930
Indigenous studies
Italy
John James Audubon
John Smith
Karenne Wood
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Lewis Baltz
literary regionalism
Lynn Riggs
Migrant Mother photograph
Monique Verdin
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Octavia Butler
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Palestine
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plantation economy
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Providence Canyon
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settler colonialism
Shell Island
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soil science
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The Grapes of Wrath 1939
Thomas Jefferson Flanagan
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- ISBN 9781478031161
- Weight: 431g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Nov 2024
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
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.
