The Vanishing South: Race and the Ecogothic in Ambrose Bierce and Charles Chesnutt.

The article focuses on how Ambrose Bierce and Charles Chesnutt engage with an ecological perspective in their fiction, particularly through Bierce's "The Difficulty of Crossing a Field" and Chesnutt's "The Conjure Woman," revealing insights into the intersection of race and nature in American literature. Topics include neglected racial truths within gothic fiction, the ambiguity surrounding disappearances in Bierce's narrative, and Chesnutt's utilization of supernatural elements.