Price loading...

Storying the Ecocatastrophe: Contemporary Narratives about the Environmental Collapse (Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment)

History

Price data last checked 104 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price history will appear here once data is collected from Amazon.

Price Distribution

No price data available for histogram

Description

How do writers and artists represent the climate catastrophe so that their works stir audiences to political action or at least raise their environmental awareness without, however, appearing didactic? Storying the Ecocatastrophe attempts to answer this question while interrogating the potential of narrative to become a viable political force. The collection of essays achieves this by examining the representational strategies and ideological goals of contemporary cultural productions about climate change. These productions have been created across different genres, such as the traditional novel, dance performance, solarpunk, economic report, collage, and space opera, as well as across different languages and cultures. The volume’s twelve chapters demonstrate that rising temperatures, erratic weather, extinction of species, depletion of resources, and coastal erosion and flooding are an effect of our abusive relationship with nature. They also show that our use of nuclear power, extraction of natural resources and extensive farming, including heavy reliance on pesticides, intersect with intrahuman violence, as fleshed out by heteropatriarchy, racism, (neo)colonialism, and capitalism. They finally argue that human activity has indirectly contributed to other contemporary crises, namely the migrant crisis and the spread of contagious diseases such as Covid-19. Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Product Specifications

Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1032726946
Category: Books > Subjects > History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 24 May 2024
Listed Since: 18 November 2023

Barcode

No barcode data available

Storying the Ecocatastrophe: Contemporary Narratives about the Environmental Collapse (Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment)

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price Distribution

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel (Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment)

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History (Routledge International Handbooks)

Routledge Global Ecologies and Environmental Humanities Book

Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

Water Stories in the Anthropocene: Anglophone Climate-Change Fiction (Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment)

Critical Environmental Politics (Interventions)

Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty: Narrating Unstable Futures (Environmental Cultures)

Routledge Ecocritical Geopolitics - Popular Culture Book

Contestatory and Creative Poetics for a Time of Climate Catastrophe: Per Se: 1

Routledge Ecofeminist Science Fiction - Gender and Ecology Book

American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship: Thinking and Acting in the Local and Global Commons (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene: A Postcolonial Critique (Routledge Environmental Humanities)

Criticism, Crisis, and Contemporary Narrative: Textual Horizons in an Age of Global Risk (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature)

Routledge Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism Book

Critical Environmental Politics (Interventions)

International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism: Making a Difference: 16 (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics

Narratives of Low-Carbon Transitions: Understanding Risks and Uncertainties (Routledge Studies in Energy Transitions)

Close Reading the Anthropocene

Routledge Narrating Nonhuman Spaces - Literary Theory Book

Routledge Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene Book

The Routledge Handbook of Grassroots Climate Activism (Routledge International Handbooks)

Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do?

Literature, Pedagogy, and Climate Change: Text Models for a Transcultural Ecology (Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment)