Global Fictions and Environmental Disaster

Imagining Survival on Our Changing Planet

AvMartin Premoli,Richard Kerridge

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

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Examining contemporary literary depictions of environmental disasters through a North–South axis, this book explores the resonances and dissonances between environmentalisms of marginalized communities in the U.S. and the global South. Pairing anti-colonial texts from the United States with examples from the Global South, it interrogates the complexity of global precarity and particular forms of environmental violence. Each pairing is linked to a specific manifestation of environmental disaster, such as hurricane, drought, species extinction, and agricultural collapse. Featuring texts from authors such as Jesmyn Ward, Monique Roffey, Paolo Bacigalupi, Alexis Wright, Linda Hogan, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Ruth Ozeki, and Sonora Jha, this book models how a comparative (global North-global South) approach to literary studies can help us untangle the complex power dynamics and differentials of the Anthropocene.

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Utgivningsdatum:2027-03-18
Mått:156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt:366 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Environmental Cultures
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350353190

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Martin Premoli is Assistant Professor of English at Pepperdine University, in Malibu CA, USA.

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In a world marked by multiple escalating uncertainties and prone to proliferating ‘abnatural’ disasters, this book makes a compelling case for the capacity of narrative fiction to illuminate their root causes, afford orientation, and discern opportunities for resistance and survival. In so doing Global Fictions and Environmental Disaster admirably exemplifies the particular contribution of ecocritical literary studies, especially in the mode of comparative North-South enquiry, to the interdisciplinary weave of the global environmental humanities.

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IntroductionChapter 1. Weathering the Superstorm in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones and Monique Roffey’s Archipelago Chapter 2. Mega-drought and the Unseasonable Youth of Paulo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife and Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book Chapter 3. Feline Extinction and Emplotting the Trophic Cascade in Linda Hogan’s Power and Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Green Lion CodaBibliography