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Dancing with Disaster - Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times (Paperback)
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Dancing with Disaster - Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times (Paperback)
Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism
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The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be
felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and
natural histories. Arguing for a more complex account of such
calamities, Kate Rigby examines a variety of past disasters, from
the Black Death of the Middle Ages to the mega-hurricanes of the
twenty-first century, revealing the dynamic interaction of diverse
human and nonhuman factors in their causation, unfolding, and
aftermath. Focusing on the link between the ways disasters are
framed by the stories told about them and how people tend to
respond to them in practice, Rigby also shows how works of
narrative fiction invite ethical reflection on human relations with
one another, with our often unruly earthly environs, and with other
species in the face of eco-catastrophe. In its investigation of an
array of authors from the Romantic period to the present-including
Heinrich von Kleist, Mary Shelley, Theodor Storm, Colin Thiele, and
Alexis Wright- Dancing with Disaster demonstrates the importance of
the environmental humanities in the development of more creative,
compassionate, ecologically oriented, and socially just responses
to the perils and possibilities of the Anthropocene.
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