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Life Writing in the Anthropocene (Hardcover)
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Life Writing in the Anthropocene is a collection of timely and
original approaches to the question of what constitutes a life, how
that life is narrated, and what lives matter in autobiography
studies in the Anthropocene. This era is characterised by the
geoengineering impact of humans, which is shaping the planet's
biophysical systems through the combustion of fossil fuels,
production of carbon, unprecedented population growth, and mass
extinction. These developments threaten the rights of humans and
other-than-humans to just and sustainable lives. In exploring ways
of representing life in the Anthropocene, this work articulates
innovative literary forms such as ecobiography (the representation
of a human subject's entwinement with their environment),
phytography (writing the lives of plants), and ethological poetics
(the study of nonhuman poetic forms), providing scholars and
writers with innovative tools to think and write about our strange
new world. In particular, its recognition on plant life reminds us
of how human lives are entwined with vegetal lives. The creative
and critical essays in this book, shaped by a number of Antipodean
authors, bear witness to a multitude of lives and deaths. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
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