This essay presents an ecocritical analysis of Hannah Crafts's The Bondwoman's Narrative, the 1850s manuscript novel by a formerly-enslaved African American woman that was recovered by Henry Louis Gates in 2001. Examining Crafts's extensive engagement with Charles Dickens's Bleak House, it argues that Crafts's fictionalized narrative of enslavement and self-emancipation re-imagines a Victorian politics of environmental health as a critique of environmental racism. Showing how Crafts presents the material ecology of the plantation South as a site and vector of violence, it reads The Bondwoman's Narrative as resisting nineteenth-century scientific discourses of racialized immunity that sought to legitimize the systemic neglect of enslaved people in the antebellum United States.

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自由呼吸：Hannah Crafts 的《女邦德叙事》中的环境暴力和种植园生态

这篇文章对汉娜·克拉夫斯的《女邦德的叙事》进行了生态批判分析，这是一部 1850 年代由一位前被奴役的非洲裔美国妇女创作的手稿小说，于 2001 年被亨利·路易斯·盖茨收回。考察克拉夫斯与查尔斯·狄更斯的《荒凉之家》的广泛接触，它认为克拉夫斯的小说是虚构的。奴役和自我解放的叙述将维多利亚时代的环境健康政治重新想象为对环境种族主义的批评。展示了 Crafts 如何将南部种植园的物质生态呈现为暴力的场所和载体，它将《女邦德的叙述》解读为抵制 19 世纪关于种族化免疫的科学话语，这些话语试图使内战前美国对被奴役者的系统性忽视合法化。