Entanglements, Narratives, and the Environment

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Edited by Nicole Haring; Roberta Maierhofer and Eva Bauer - Contributions by Georgiana Banita; Ricardo Pagliuso Regatieri; Robert A. Winkler; Réka M. Cristian; Adriana Kiczkowski; Lena Leßlhumer; Nicole Haring; Michael Fuchs; Christian Quendler and France

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This book provides an interdisciplinary ecocritical reading of narratives and environmental entanglements from an Inter-American perspective, predominantly providing literary, film, and cultural analysis of texts from the Americas. It shows that the Anthropocene demands new narratives and theoretical approaches to tackle the climate crisis.

Contenu

Part I: Histories: Indigeneity, Coloniality, and Human Rights

Chapter 1

The Mortality Cost of Carbon Extraction: Oil, Indigenous Lives, and Human Rights in the Americas

Georgiana Banita

Chapter 2

Environmental Coloniality and 'Regressive' Neo-Extractivism

Ricardo Pagliuso Regatieri

Part II: Literatures: Multi-Species Stories and Human-Nature Entanglements

Chapter 3

The Weather in Thoreau: Different Dimensions of Climate (Change) in Walden and Beyond

Robert A. Winkler

Chapter 4

Thornton Wilder's Un-Aristotelian Warning: The Skin of Our Teeth as Climate Play

Réka M. Cristian

Chapter 5

The Environmental Paradox of Robotics. A Reading of Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Adriana Kiczkowski

Chapter 6

Living in Symbiosis with Nature: Race and the American Landscape as Depicted in Joseph Drew Lanham's Life Writing The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature (2016)

Lena Leßlhumer

Chapter 7

The Last Generation: Cherríe Moraga's Prose and Poetry, the Chthulucene, and Intersectional Environmentalism

Nicole Haring

Part III: Films: (In)Justices and Hope

Chapter 8

The Vertical Dimension of the American West: Mining and the Media Archaeology of Navajo Land

Michael Fuchs and Christian Quendler

Chapter 9

Staying Hopeful with Climate Change: A Documentary Analysis

Francesca Mallocci