This book considers the ways in which contemporary American fiction seeks to imagine a mode of 'planetary memory' able to address the scalar and systemic complexities of the Anthropocene. First published as a special issue of Textual Practice.
This book considers the ways in which contemporary American fiction seeks to imagine a mode of 'planetary memory' able to address the scalar and systemic complexities of the Anthropocene. First published as a special issue of Textual Practice.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Lucy Bond is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Westminster, UK. Her most recent publications include Frames of Memory after 9/11: Culture, Criticism, Politics, and Law (2015), and Memory Unbound: Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies (co-edited with Stef Craps and Pieter Vermeulen, 2017). Ben De Bruyn is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. He is the author of Wolfgang Iser: A Companion (2012) and co-editor of Literature Now: Key Terms and Methods for Literary History (2016). He is currently finishing his new book, The Novel and the Multispecies Soundscape (2018). Jessica Rapson is a Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London, UK. She is the author of Topographies of Suffering: Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice (2015), and the co-editor of The Transcultural Turn: Interrogating Memory Between and Beyond Borders (with Lucy Bond, 2014).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Planetary memory in contemporary American fiction 1. Future readers: narrating the human in the Anthropocene 2. Speculative memory, the planetary and genre fiction 3. 'Family territory' to the 'circumference of the earth': local and planetary memories of climate change in Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behaviour 4. Writing the liquid city: excavating urban ecologies after Katrina 5. Realism 4°. Objects, weather and infrastructure in Ben Lerner's 10:04 6. 'I love Alaska': posthuman subjectivity and memory on the final frontier of our ecological crisis 7. 'In the eyeblink of a planet you were born, died, and your bones disintegrated': scales of mourning and velocities of memory in Philipp Meyer's American Rust 8. Afterword: The time of planetary memory
Introduction: Planetary memory in contemporary American fiction 1. Future readers: narrating the human in the Anthropocene 2. Speculative memory, the planetary and genre fiction 3. 'Family territory' to the 'circumference of the earth': local and planetary memories of climate change in Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behaviour 4. Writing the liquid city: excavating urban ecologies after Katrina 5. Realism 4°. Objects, weather and infrastructure in Ben Lerner's 10:04 6. 'I love Alaska': posthuman subjectivity and memory on the final frontier of our ecological crisis 7. 'In the eyeblink of a planet you were born, died, and your bones disintegrated': scales of mourning and velocities of memory in Philipp Meyer's American Rust 8. Afterword: The time of planetary memory
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