The US and the world we inhabit / edited by Sylvia Guslandi [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loreto, Paola

Contributor:

Guslandi, Sylvia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adaptation (Biology).

Ecology.

Euthenics.

Nature and nurture.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.

Summary:

Environmental and global outlooks are currently at the center of the most lively and urgent international scholarship. This volume serves to overcome the self-referentiality of American studies by intersecting the study of American literature and history with the questions and concerns raised by these perspectives. It re-conceptualizes the mutual and shifting positions of center(s) and margin(s), and subject(s) and object(s) in terms of relation and an inclusive structure of relations based on an ecological ethics. The contributions here explore many methodological hypotheses, ranging from Christa Greve-Vollp's work on eco-cosmopolitanism to Peter Bardaglio's report on US climate activism, as well as the ecocritical and ecofeminist viewpoints of Scott Slovic and Greta Gaard respectively. In addition to contributing to academic discourse, the essays--written by both young and established international scholars, and coherently arranged into four thematic sections--explore topics that are of interest to the broader public. The issues discussed here include identity and new forms of belonging; migration and the environment; ecolanguage, ecopoetry and ecopoetics; translation and multilingualism; animal studies; environmental activism; shifting geographies; and ecofeminism.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

1

Mobility, Migration and the Natural Environment in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide

Autarkic Food

Words Fail Me Here

The Mountains as Sacred Spaces

On Pain and Kindred Bodies in US Science Fiction

Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of "World"

Gender, Generations and Ethnicity in Louise's De Salvo's Food Memoir Crazy in the Kitchen

2

Climate Change Affects and Narratives

"You Are Nothing but Wilderness. No Constraint. No Mind."

Painting the Wilderness

Colour centrefold (high resolution images not available for e-version)

Gardens from Deserts

A Farmer in the Ghetto

Nature's "Artifex Polytechnes"

3

We Rise!

Kindred Spirits, Troubled Cause

Local Ecologies of Language and the Role of English Within Recent American Globalization Efforts

Holding Their (Play)Ground

From Experience to History

4

Dividing the People

Emanuel Carnevali

"Libro italiano come pochi altri libri di lingua italiana lo sono"

"The Way to Know the Bobolink"

"Facing the Great Desolation"

Notes on Contributors.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-4407-9

OCLC:

1183030715