Planetary Memory in Contemporary American Fiction (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bond, Lucy; Rapson, Jessica; De Bruyn, Ben

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351026161
• Artikelnr.: 57966848

Autorenporträt

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