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Maragarida Vale de Gato and José Duarte (eds.). Dez Ar Mar / Ten Sea Air. Lisbon: Casa de Gigante
Ten (+ 10) poets and scholars (including artistic partnerships) were invited to experiment with the question: how to breathe in and navigate through the climate crisis? We were particularly interested in coastal issues or “ecotones,” areas where at least two communities/environments overlap. Participants: Abigail Chabitnoy, Ana Mafalda Leite, Brenda Shaughnessy, Caleb Parkin, David Gewanter, Diana…
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José Manuel Marrero Henríquez – Escritos antivíricos
The literary chronicles of Escritos antivíricos [Antiviral Writings] are far from being a mere anecdotal account of a family’s daily life during the pandemic. Their scope is broader, transcending the circumstances of their origin to become a meticulous analysis of the contemporary reality of a digitized world, contaminated both biologically and semantically. With tones that…
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Ecopoetic Place-Making: Nature and Mobility in Contemporary American Poetry Judith Rauscher
American ecopoetries of migration explore the conflicted relationships of mobile subjects to the nonhuman world and thus offer valuable environmental insight for our current age of mass mobility and global ecological crisis. In Ecopoetic Place-Making, Judith Rauscher analyzes the works of five contemporary American poets of migration, drawing from ecocriticism and mobility studies. The poets discussed…
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Blue Humanities – Storied Waterscapes in the Anthropocene by Serpil Oppermann
By drawing on oceanography (marine sciences) and limnology (freshwater sciences), social sciences, and the environmental humanities, the field of the blue humanities critically examines the planet’s troubled seas and distressed freshwaters from various socio-cultural, literary, historical, aesthetic, ethical, and theoretical perspectives. Since all waterscapes in the Anthropocene are overexploited and endangered sites, the field calls…
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Ethics for the Future: Perspectives from 21st Century Fiction (transcript 2023)
Ethics for the Future: Perspectives from 21st Century Fiction (transcript 2023) Which of the possible futures might be a good future, and how do we know? Stephanie Bender looks at contemporary films and novels to address major ethical challenges of the future: the ecological catastrophe, digitalisation and biotechnology. She proposes that fiction and its modes…
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Empirical Ecocriticism – Environmental Narratives for Social Change
Empirical Ecocriticism Environmental Narratives for Social Change There is a growing consensus that environmental narratives can help catalyze the social change necessary to address today’s environmental crises; however, surprisingly little is known about their impact and effectiveness. In Empirical Ecocriticism, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W. P. Malecki, and Frank Hakemulder combine an environmental humanities…
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“Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature“ (Palgrave, 2023)
About this book This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil examines forms of environmental knowledge in African American writing ranging from antebellum slave narratives and pamphlets to Charlotte Forten’s journals, Booker T. Washington’s autobiographies, and Charles…
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Ecocriticism and the Island : Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago
Ecocriticism and the Island: Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago – Pippa Marland (Rowman and Littlefield, December 2022). Ecocriticism and the Island explores a wide selection of island-themed creative non-fiction, offering new insights into the ways in which authors negotiate existing cultural tropes of the island while offering their own distinctive articulations of “islandness.” This book…
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Ecologies of a Storied Planet in the Anthropocene by Serpil Oppermann
Published by West Virginia University Press in 2023, Ecologies of a Storied Planet in the Anthropocene is a tour de force. With transdisciplinarity and theoretical lucidity, it rethinks the Anthropocene from a material ecocritical perspective, envisioning innovative modes of knowledge for deeper understandings of Anthropocene ecologies. Focusing on nonhuman agencies, Serpil Oppermann shows in fascinating detail how…
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Fragile: A Novel by Alexa Weik von Mossner
A man responsible for keeping New York City alive falls for an underground animal activist from the wrong side of the East River in Alexa Weik von Mossner’s debut novel about love, loss, and resilience in the face of global ecological crisis. New York in 2057—a metropolis divided. Sheltered by enormous seawalls, Manhattan is green,…
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Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices, Vernon Press, 2022.
Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices What can Italy teach us about our relationships with the nonhuman world in the current socio-environmental crisis? Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices focuses on how Italian writers, activists, visual artists, and philosophers engage with real and fictional environments and how their engagements reflect, critique,…
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Italo Calvino’s Animals – Anthropocene Stories – Serenella Iovino
Are chickens going extinct? What is it like to be a white gorilla in Barcelona’s zoo? How threatening can be an ant? And how endangered are humans, in the industrial and capitalist biosphere? Italo Calvino’s Animals: Anthropocene Stories by Serenella Iovino (Cambridge UP) explores Anthropocene animals through the visionary eyes of a classic modern author. In Calvino’s…
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Slow Violence in Contemporary American Environmental Literature book by Erden El
It has been approximately nine years since Rob Nixon coined the term ‘slow violence’ to express the slow but deadly changes in the environment which cause the suffering of the poor. These environmental catastrophes take place so gradually and out of sight that they are often ignored. While Nixon dealt with the issues of slow…
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WAYMARKING ITALY’S INFLUENCE ON THE AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATION WHILE ON PILGRIMAGE TO ASSISI By Robert L. France
WAYMARKING ITALY’S INFLUENCE ON THE AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATION WHILE ON PILGRIMAGE TO ASSISI By Robert L. France, Cambridge Scholars, 2020. Waymarking Italy’s Influence on the American Environmental Imagination While on Pilgrimage to Assisi describes a peripatetic pilgrimage that is equal parts a daily description of a 200-kilometre walk from the “wounded mountain” of La Verna…
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Cli-Fi A Companion – Axel Goodbody – Adeline Johns-Putra (eds.) Cli-Fi A Companion
What is Cli-Fi? Climate change fiction is a new lit- erary phenomenon that emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century in response to what may be society’s greatest challenge. Climate change is already part responsible for extreme weather events, flooding, desertification and sea level rise, leading to famine, the spread of disease, and population…
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Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment
Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment is the first English language anthology that presents ecocritical research on northern European literatures and cultures.
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Italy and the Environmental Humanities -Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies
Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti, and Elena Past, eds. Bringing together new writing by some of the field’s most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy–as a territory of both matter and imagination–through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of…
