COVER -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Southern Studies in the Age of the Anthropocene -- I COAL, OIL, & -- SOUTHERN HAZARDSCAPES -- Stuck in Place: Affect, Atmosphere, and the Appalachian World of Ann Pancake -- Plantation Pasts and the Petrochemical Present: Energy Culture, the Gulf Coast, and Petrochemical America -- Ogling Offshore Oil: Vision and Knowledge in Midcentury Gulf of Mexico Films -- II ROUTES, ROADS, & -- THE RHIZOMATIC SOUTH -- "So Many Strange Plants" Race and Environment in John Muir's A Thousand-Mile Walkto the Gulf -- Country Roads: Mountain Journeys in the Anthropocene -- "Home Is Where the Hatred Is": Gil Scott-Heron's Toxic Domestic Spaces and the Rhizomatic South -- III FARMING& -- FOODWAYS -- Faulkner's Ecologies and the Legacy of the Nashville Agrarians -- Southern Foodways and Visceral Environmentalism -- IV FLOODS& -- SOUTHERN WATER STUDIES -- Refrigerators, Mosquitoes, and Phosphates: The Environmental Rhetoric of David E. Lilienthal -- Flooding Mississippi: Memory, Race, and Landscape in Twenty-First-Century Fiction -- "I Want My City Back!": The Boundaries of the Katrina Diaspora -- The Universe Unraveled: Swampy Embeddedness and Ecological Apocalypse in Beasts of the Southern Wild -- V ECO-DYSTOPIAS -- Grave Nature: Caroline Lee Hentz's Dead Slaves and the Eco-dystopia of the Old South -- Sexual Assault and the Rape of Nature in Child of God and Deliverance -- Florida Man: Climatological Racism and Internal Homonationalismin US Political Satire -- New Orleans in the Twenty-Second Century -- Afterwor(l)d: The Future in the Present -- Contributors -- Index.
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