Everyday ecofascism : crisis and consumption in American literature / Alexander Menrisky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Menrisky, Alexander, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--21st century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Fascism in literature.

Environmentalism in literature.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Crisis and consumption in American literature

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Everyday Ecofascism powerfully nails down the emergent concept of ecofascism and forms a basis for understanding phenomena like Covid-19, ecological utopianism, and psychedelic environmentalism. Presenting a view of fascism as a complex power network that plays out on scales both large and small, Alexander Menrisky demonstrates that ecofascism is best understood not as a uniquely right-wing ideology but as a political genre that reinforces white supremacy and other forms of domination"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Everyday ecofascism : environmentalist storytelling and its threshold objects

Land : entitlement to environment across settler-colonial history and partisan lines

Tools : circumscriptions of territory across the communalist counterculture and its markets

Food : naturalizations of self and strength in Appalachia's extracted landscapes and culinary literatures

Drugs : purification of mind, body, and earth in contemporary psychedelia and its prophecies

Contagion : inheritance of a purified earth in viral politics and apocalyptic visions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781452972824

1452972826

OCLC:

1509410379