Daniel A. Finch-Race - Böcker

This book examines how texts and visual culture from nineteenth-century French-speaking contexts can enhance understanding of twenty-first-century challenges. It takes up an ecoregional paradigm at the crossroads of natural sciences and social sciences to evaluate the interplay between local experiences and global concerns about ecological disruptions tied to modernization. Contributors’ close readings make use of decentring methods to probe binaries such as canonical versus marginal. This diverse thinking is relevant to literary geography, social history, and the environmental humanities.The chapters herein were originally published as a special issue of Dix-neuf.

This volume explores Italian science fiction from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, covering literary texts, films, music and visual works by figures as diverse as Maria Rosa Cutrufelli, Peter Kolosimo, Primo Levi, Antonio Margheriti, Gilda Musa and Roberto Vacca. It broadens the horizons of both Italian studies and the environmental humanities by addressing a long-neglected genre, and expands our understanding of relations between the ecological, the imaginary and the sociopolitical. The chapters draw on a variety of methodological frameworks, including animal studies, ecocriticism, ecofeminism, eco-media studies, energy humanities and posthumanism. The reader will gain insights into consequential topics such as anthropocentrism/speciesism, ecomodernist thought, environmental justice struggles at the planetary and regional level, non-human and new materialist ontologies, utopian/dystopian philosophies and prospects for transitioning beyond the crisis of petro-modernity through the construction of post-depletion futures.Open Access versions of the introduction and six of the book chapters are available on the Liverpool University Press website.