Transscalar Critique

Contemporary African American writing negotiates the twinned crises of anthropogenic climate change and anti-Black violence by thinking in new ways about scale Uses Black Studies and African American literature to intervene in humanistic accounts of the epoch we now know as the AnthropoceneA comprehensive overview of the myriad ways in which scale has been taken up in contemporary literary criticism, the environmental humanities, and Black StudiesBrings together public policy and literature to a