Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis
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Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis connects insights from the field of literary animal studies with the urgent issues of climate change and environmental degradation, and features considerations of new interventions by literature in relation to these pressing questions and debates. This volume informs academic debates in terms of how nonhuman animals figure in our cultural imagination of topics such as climate change, extinction, animal otherness, the posthuman, and environmental crises. Using a diverse set of methodologies, each chapter presents relevant cases which discuss the various aspects of these interstices. This volume is an intersection between literary animal studies and climate fiction intended as an interdisciplinary intervention that speaks to the global climate debate and is thus relevant across the environmental humanities.
Sune Borkfelt lectures at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is author of ReadingSlaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity (2022).
Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis connects insights from the field of literary animal studies with the urgent issues of climate change and environmental degradation, and features considerations of new interventions by literature in relation to these pressing questions and debates. This volume informs academic debates in terms of how nonhuman animals figure in our cultural imagination of topics such as climate change, extinction, animal otherness, the posthuman, and environmental crises. Using a diverse set of methodologies, each chapter presents relevant cases which discuss the various aspects of these interstices. This volume is an intersection between literary animal studies and climate fiction intended as an interdisciplinary intervention that speaks to the global climate debate and is thus relevant across the environmental humanities.
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
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Sune Borkfelt
Themen in »Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis«
Literature and the Environment Literature and Animal Studies nonhuman animals Literature, Science and Medicine Studies Climate Change climate fiction anthropocene posthumanism
Stimmen zu »Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis«
“The volume made me wonder about what it means to conduct animal studies scholarship in a changing climate, and whether the emergence of the ‘climate crisis’ as a popular concept might impact on the ways we research, write, and teach.” (Dominic O’Key, The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, May 8, 2023)
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“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)
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