Political Economies of Wood in Early American Literature

美国早期文学中木材的政治经济学

• 批准号: 2879826
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Sussex
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2879826
• 关键词: Political; Economies; Wood; Early; American

Oil is often taken to be the material base for the development of transatlantic capitalist modernity, yet my project argues that extractivist political economies of wood were instead fundamental in shaping both new world colonialism and representations of Indigenous and settler identities in early American literature. I explore the material commodification of wood and brutal enclosure and expropriation of Indigenous land through current discourses in the ecological and energy humanities, political economy, decolonisation, Indigenous studies, new materialism, and eighteenth and nineteenth century American literature. Reading against the settler-colonial narratives of authors such as Fenimore Cooper or Brockden Brown, I analyse how Native American writers Samson Occom and William Apess, women writers Lydia Maria Child and Catherine Maria Sedgwick, and Henry David Thoreau, offer decolonial and anti-capitalist counternarratives to open radical modes of coexistence within forest ecologies.

石油通常被认为是跨大西洋资本主义现代性发展的物质基础，但我的项目认为，木材的采掘主义政治经济反而是塑造新世界殖民主义以及早期美国文学中土著和定居者身份的代表性的基础。我探索木材和野蛮的圈地和土著土地征用的材料商品化，通过当前的生态和能源人文，政治经济学，非殖民化，土著研究，新唯物主义和十八和十九世纪美国文学的话语。阅读对定居者殖民叙事的作者，如费尼莫尔库珀或布罗克登布朗，我分析如何美国原住民作家萨姆森奥康和威廉Apess，女作家莉迪亚玛丽亚儿童和凯瑟琳玛丽亚塞奇威克，和亨利大卫梭罗，提供非殖民和反资本主义的反叙事打开激进的模式共存的森林生态。