Debated, denied, unheard of, encompassing: The Anthropocene is a vexed topic, and requires interdisciplinary imagination. Starting at the author’s home in rural northern Michigan and zooming out to perceive a dizzying global matrix, Christopher Schaberg invites readers on an atmospheric, impressionistic adventure with the environmental humanities. Searching for the Anthropocene blends personal narrative, cultural criticism, and ecological thought to ponder human-driven catastrophe on a planetary scale. This book is not about defining or settling the Anthropocene, but rather about articulating what it’s like to live in the Anthropocene, to live with a sense of its nagging presence--even as the stakes grow higher with each passing year, each oncoming storm.
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List of Figures Part I Home Sick Part II Jet Lag Acknowledgements Reprint Acknowledgements Bibliography Index
[Schaberg] makes sharp observations on the Anthropocene's reflection across the span of human projects, from the most insignificant to the most magnificent. Schaberg divides the book into two parts: ‘Home Sick’ and ‘Jet Lag.’ … Each part comprises multiple short pieces that speak to large ecological themes. Each piece is a treat of ecological wisdom, self-reflection, critical imagination, and elegant writing. Searching for the Anthropocene carries the ecocritical lessons beyond Michigan and midwestern America to the continental US and beyond, demonstrating how the human ecological footprint has grown into the Anthropocene. An invaluable resource for students and scholars of ecocriticism, critical theory, and environmental studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers.
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Blending personal narrative, cultural criticism, and environmental studies, Searching for the Anthropocene guides readers through the urgent questions and concerns of contemporary eco-criticism.
Engages with one of the most urgent and fast-growing areas in literary studies and the humanities more broadly: environmental humanities or eco-criticism

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781501351822
Publisert
2019-12-12
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic USA
Vekt
312 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224

Biographical note

Christopher Schaberg is Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, USA. He is the author of The Textual Life of Airports (2013), The End of Airports (2015), Airportness (2017), and The Work of Literature in an Age of Post-Truth (2018), all published by Bloomsbury.