Myth and Environmentalism (eBook, ePUB)

Arts of Resilience for a Damaged Planet
Redaktion: Sánchez-Pardo, Esther; Sánchez, María Porras

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume traces the interconnections between myth, environmentalism, narrative, poetry, comics and innovative artistic practice, using this as a framework through which to examine strategies for repairing our unhealthy relationship with the planet.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000900729
• Artikelnr.: 67932724

Autorenporträt

Esther Sánchez-Pardo is Professor of English at Complutense University, Madrid, Spain. María Porras Sánchez is an Assistant Professor at Complutense University, Madrid, Spain, and a literary translator.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: myth and environmentalism: entanglements, synergies, openings
PART I: Myth, disaster and present-day views on ecological damage 1. The
afterlife of Chornobyl: apocalyptic mythology and environmentalism in the
Exclusion Zone 2. Myths of wilderness and motherhood in postapocalyptic
narratives of the Anthropocene PART II: Indigenous and Afro-diasporic myths
and ecological knowledge 3. Boundless water, boundless ice-Arctic
cosmological concepts in times of melting horizons 4. Revisiting the wild:
mythology and ecological wisdom in shalan joudry's Waking Ground 5. Myth,
Afrodiasporic spirituality, and the oceanic archive in independent comics
PART III: Artistic practices, myth and environmental resilience 6. "Giant
by Thine Own Nature": Jean-Baptiste Débret and Antônio Parreiras' mythic
Brazilian land(scape)s through a transatlantic gaze 7. New cosmogonies of
waste negotiated in the art of Mohamed Larbi Rahhali 8. Death is life is
death is life: continual regeneration in myth and the art of Maki Ohkojima
9. Coda: a radical evocation of seed