Vulnerable Earth : The Literature of Climate Crisis / Pramod K. Nayar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nayar, Pramod K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 295 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Vulnerable Earth is a study of the literature of climate crisis. Building on the assumption that the crisis is planetary in scope even if differential and unequal in effects, it examines literary fiction, graphic novels, memoirs about toxic wastes and neo-slavery narratives, mostly from the contemporary decades, but touching upon select antecedents as well, and from all over the world. The study covers texts that fictionalize a 'hydrocrisis', those that are concerned with species extinction and experimental solutions such as rewilding, fiction and memoirs that are interested in exploring the conversations between and across species in multispecies encounters and, finally, texts that show the linkage between social justice and environmental justice. Focusing on aesthetics, narrative modes and constructions of damaged, wasted and at-risk worlds, this book shows how the literature of climate crisis foregrounds a feature that humans and nonhumans, the living and the non-living share, differentially, with the planet: vulnerability"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Foreword / by Benno Böer

Introduction : the literature of climate crisis

Hydropoetics : fluid fictions

Extinction : after/lives

Creaturely texts : multispecies encounters

Justice matters : human and nonhuman toxiconomies

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Apr 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009566094

1009566091

9781009496896

1009496891