Black Naturalism: Genre and the Nonhuman in 19th and 20th Century Black Diasporic Literature

我的研究将通过对跨国黑人作家的探索，为自然主义文学体裁提供双重干预。首先，我的论文重新思考了自然主义作为一种流派何时何地发展起来的时间和地理界限。其次，我认为黑人作家在19世纪和20世纪初的文学自然主义中处于中心地位，我断言，从这些被忽视的9页作家的第5页中，出现了对生态的复杂理解。使用黑人生态学、地理学和文学研究的方法论，我打算追溯、交叉和对比著名黑人作家的自然主义，以重新记录文学自然主义的流派。

My research will provide a dual intervention into the literary genre of naturalism through an exploration of transnational Black writers. First, my thesis rethinks the temporal and geographical boundaries of when and where naturalism, as a genre, developed. Second, I argue for the centrality of Black authors in literary naturalism over the 19th and early 20th centuries, asserting that a complex understanding of ecology emerges from these overlooked Page 5 of 9 Pagesauthors. Using the methodologies of Black ecologies, geographies, and literary studies, I intend to trace, intersect, and contrast the naturalisms of prominent Black authors to re-historicise the genre of literary naturalism.