Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene / edited by Ina Batzke, Lea Espinoza Garrido, Linda M. Hess.
Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene is a timely collection of insightful contributions that negotiate how the genre of life writing, traditionally tied to the human perspective and thus anthropocentric qua definition, can provide adequate perspectives for an age of ecological disasters and gl...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition 2021. |
| Series: | Palgrave studies in life writing,
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| Online Access: | Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2021 English/International |
| Summary: | Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene is a timely collection of insightful contributions that negotiate how the genre of life writing, traditionally tied to the human perspective and thus anthropocentric qua definition, can provide adequate perspectives for an age of ecological disasters and global climate change. The volume's eight chapters illustrate the aptness of life writing and life writing studies to critically reevaluate the role of "the human" vis-à-vis non-human others while remaining mindful of persisting inequalities between humans regarding who causes and who suffers damage in the Anthropocene age. The authors in this collection not only expand the toolbox of life writing studies by engaging with critical insights from the fields of posthumanism and ecocriticism, but, in turn, also enrich those fields by offering unique approaches to contemplate the responsibility of humans for as well as their relational existence in the posthuman Anthropocene. Ina Batzke is researcher and lecturer in American Studies at the University of Augsburg, Germany. Lea Espinoza Garrido is a researcher and lecturer in American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. Linda M. Hess is a senior lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of American Studies at the University of Augsburg, Germany. . |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 268 pages 5 illus). |
| ISBN: | 3030779726 9783030779726 3030779734 9783030779733 |
| ISSN: | 2730-9193 |