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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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Book Dinomania: Why We Love, Fear and are Utterly Enchanted by Dinosaurs by Boria Sax
Book Dinomania: Why We Love, Fear and are Utterly Enchanted by Dinosaurs Author: Boria Sax “In this erudite, wide-ranging and engaged work, Boria Sax explorers the cultural flesh that has been wrapped around the fossilized bones of these iconic creatures. He asks, ‘What is a dinosaur?’ and shows that the answer is not merely a…
