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The Literature and Politics of the Environment
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The Literature and Politics of the Environment
Series: Essays and Studies
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Essays exploring interrelated strands of material ecologies, past
and present British politics, and the act of writing, through a
rich variety of case studies. Much as the complexities of climate
change and the Anthropocene have queried the limits and exclusions
of literary representation, so, too, have the challenges recently
presented by climate activism and intersectional environmentalism,
animal rights, and even the power of material forms, such as oil,
plastic, and heavy metals. Social and protest movements have
revived the question of whether there can be such a thing as an
activist ecocriticism: can such an approach only concern itself
with consciousness, or might it politicise literary criticism in a
new way? Attempting to respond, this volume coalesces around three
interrelated strands: material ecologies, past and present British
politics, and the act of writing itself. Contributors consider the
ways in which literary form has foregrounded the complexities of
both matter (in essays on water, sugar, and land) and political
economics (from empire and nationalism to environmental justice
movements and local and regional communities). The volume asks how
life writing, nature writing, creative nonfiction, and
autobiography - although genres entrenched in capitalist political
realities - can also confront these by reinserting personal
experience. Can we bring a more sustainable planet into being by
focusing on those literary forms which have the ability to imagine
the conditions and systems needed to do so?
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