Life Writing in the Anthropocene

Jessica White is based at The University of Queensland, Australia. Her memoir about deafness, Hearing Maud, won the 2020 Michael Crouch Award for a debut work of biography. She is currently writing an ecobiography of nineteenth-century botanist Georgiana Molloy. Gillian Whitlock is Emeritus Professor in Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland, Australia. She is currently writing Inhumanities: Refugee Lives in the Archives, a life narrative of asylum seekers in detention at the Nauru camp, and the testimony of the things they left behind.

• IntroductionLife: Writing and Rights in the AnthropoceneJessica White and Gillian WhitlockThe Process1. From the Miniature to the Momentous: Writing Lives through EcobiographyJessica White2. Period Rhetoric, Countersignature, and the Australian NovelThomas Bristow3. Writing Toward and With: Ethological Poetics and Nonhuman LivesStuart Cooke4. Becoming D | other: Life as a Transmuting DeviceAstrid JoutsenoEssays5. Writing the Lives of Plants: Phytography and the Botanical ImaginationJohn Charles Ryan6. "If a Tree Falls …" : Posthuman Testimony in C. D. Wright’s Casting Deep Shade, Eamonn Connor7. Writing the Lives of Fungi at the End of the WorldAlexis Harley8. Planetary Delta: Anthropocene Lives in the Blues MemoirParker Krieg9. Memoir and the End of the Natural WorldTony Hughes-d’Aeth10. "As Closely Bonded as We are:" Animalographies, Kinship, and Conflict in Ceridwen Dovey’s Only the Animals and Eva Hornung’s Dog BoyGrace MooreForum: Writing the Lives of Other-than-Humans11. "Desperation for Life": Writing Death in the AnthropoceneJessica White and Gillian WhitlockForums12. Writing the Cow: Poetry, Activism, and the Texts of MeatJessica Holmes13. Sheep: Voice | Complicity | PrecedentBarbara Holloway14. A Triumphal Entry, a Stifled Cry, a Hushed RetreatRick De VosWhat’s Next?15. Her Biography: Deborah Bird RoseStephen MueckeArtist’s Statement16. Artist’s StatementAnna Laurent