Finalist, 2022 Ecocriticism Book Prize, Association for the Study
of Literature and the Environment Shortlisted, 2020 Book Prize,
Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present How do
literature and other cultural forms shape how we imagine the
planet, for better or worse? In this rich, original, and long
awaited book, Jennifer Wenzel tackles the formal innovations,
rhetorical appeals, and sociological imbrications of world
literature that might help us confront unevenly distributed
environmental crises, including global warming. The Disposition of
Nature argues that assumptions about what nature is are at stake in
conflicts over how it is inhabited or used. Both environmental
discourse and world literature scholarship tend to confuse parts
and wholes. Working with writing and film from Africa, South Asia,
and beyond, Wenzel takes a contrapuntal approach to sites and
subjects dispersed across space and time. Reading for the planet,
Wenzel shows, means reading from near to there: across experiential
divides, between specific sites, at more than one scale. Impressive
in its disciplinary breadth, Wenzel’s book fuses insights from
political ecology, geography, anthropology, history, and law, while
drawing on active debates between postcolonial theory and world
literature, as well as scholarship on the Anthropocene and the
material turn. In doing so, the book shows the importance of the
literary to environmental thought and practice, elaborating how a
supple understanding of cultural imagination and narrative logics
can foster more robust accounts of global inequality and energize
movements for justice and livable futures.
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