Review of Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature by Matthias Klestil, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 307 pp. ISBN: 978-3-030-82102-9

Magdalena Łapińska

University of Białystok, Poland

Magdalena Łapińska holds a PhD in Literature. She is an Assistant at the University of Białystok, Poland, where she teaches at the Faculty of Philology. Her publications oscillate around the concepts of identity, memory, and affect represented in African American prose and the representation of racial issues in American fantasy literature.


https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7686-3086




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Isenberg, Andrew C. “Introduction: A New Environmental History.” The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History, edited by A. C. Isenberg. Oxford UP, 2014, pp. 1–20.

Klestil, Matthias. Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature. Springer Nature, 2023.

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2025-03-25


Łapińska, M. (2025) “Review of Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature by Matthias Klestil, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 307 pp. ISBN: 978-3-030-82102-9”, Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies, (47). Available at: https://czasopisma.filologia.uwb.edu.pl/index.php/c/article/view/2498 (Accessed: 4 April 2025).

Magdalena Łapińska 
University of Białystok, Poland

Magdalena Łapińska holds a PhD in Literature. She is an Assistant at the University of Białystok, Poland, where she teaches at the Faculty of Philology. Her publications oscillate around the concepts of identity, memory, and affect represented in African American prose and the representation of racial issues in American fantasy literature.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7686-3086