Min Hyoung Song

Climate Lyricism

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Produktbeschreibung

Min Hyoung Song articulates a climate change-centered reading practice that foregrounds how literature, poetry, and essays help us to better grapple with our everyday encounters with climate change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781478017738
• ISBN-10: 1478017732
• Artikelnr.: 61644895

Autorenporträt

Min Hyoung Song

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The Practice of Sustaining Attention to Climate Change  1
Part I. Scope
1. What is Denial? Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Teju Cole’s Open City
, and Sally Wen Mao’s “Occidentalism”  19
2. Why Revive the Lyric? Claudia Rankine’s Citizen and Craig Santos Perez’s
“Love in a Time of Climate Change”  38
3. Why Stay with Bad Feelings? Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic and Tommy
Pico’s IRL  65
4. How Should I Live? Inattention and Everyday-Life Projects  80
Part II. Breath
5. What’s Wrong with Narrative? The Promises and Disappointments of Climate
Fiction  101
6. Where Are We Now? Scalar Variance, Persistence, Swing, and David Bowie 
121
Part III. Urgency
7. The Scale of the Everyday, Part 1: The Keeling Curve, Frank O’Hara, and
Bernadette Mayer  141
8. The Scale of the Everyday, Part 2: Ada Limón, Tommy Pico, and Solmaz
Sharif  159
9. The Global Novel Imagines the Afterlife: George Saunders, J.M. Coetzee,
and HanKang  180
Conclusion. The Foreign Present—Who Are We to Each Other?  201
Acknowledgments  213
Notes  217
Bibliography  233
Index  243