Overview
- Decenters the human from literary debates focused on climate change
- Considers an aesthetic, political, and practical response to the urgency of climate change
- Studies texts from a number of different national literatures
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature (PSAAL)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Climate Crisis
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Extinction
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Posthuman
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Reviews
“Focused on multispecies exposure, precarity and vulnerability, Borkfelt and Stephan’s wide-ranging collection amply demonstrates the strength and vitality of emerging scholarship in the new (post-)humanities. These rich and eclectic essays show that cultural narratives and the study thereof retain a powerful poignancy, even as the waters rise, creatures go extinct and the world catches fire around us.” (Peter Mortensen, Associate Professor of English Literature (Aarhus University), co-editor of Framing the Environmental Humanities (2018))
“This urgent collection makes space for vulnerability in a world that demands steely polarity: the vulnerability of humans as animals in the climate crisis; the vulnerability of nonhuman animals to physical and representational violence; and the vulnerability of literature as a slow form that can nonetheless fuel rebellious change. The very act of reading these pages is to lay ourselves bare, and this is exactly what we need right now.” (Laura Jean McKay, PhD, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of The Animals in That Country)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sune Borkfelt lectures at Aarhus University, Denmark. His publications include Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity (2022), as well as articles and book chapters on nonhuman otherness, the naming of nonhuman animals, postcolonial animals, and the ethics of animal product marketing.
Matthias Stephan is associate professor at Aarhus University, coordinator of the Centre for Studies of Otherness, author of Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century, and general editor of Otherness: Essays and Studies.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis
Editors: Sune Borkfelt, Matthias Stephan
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11020-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11019-1Published: 23 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11022-1Published: 23 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11020-7Published: 22 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2634-6338
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6346
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 302
Topics: Literary Theory, Contemporary Literature, History, general, Science and Technology Studies, Media and Communication, Environmental Geography