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Narrating Nonhuman Spaces - Form, Story, and Experience Beyond Anthropocentrism (Hardcover)
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Narrating Nonhuman Spaces - Form, Story, and Experience Beyond Anthropocentrism (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
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Recent debates about the Anthropocene have prompted a
re-negotiation of the relationship between human subjectivity and
nonhuman matter within a wide range of disciplines. This collection
builds on the assumption that our understanding of the nonhuman
world is bound up with the experience of space: thinking about and
with nonhuman spaces destabilizes human-scale assumptions. Literary
form affords this kind of nonanthropocentric experience; one role
of the critic in the Anthropocene is to foreground the function of
space and description in challenging the conventional link between
narrative and human (inter)subjectivity. Bringing together New
Formalism, ecocriticism, and narrative theory, the included essays
demonstrate that literature can transgress the strong and
long-established boundary of the human frame that literary and
narrative scholarship clings to. The focus is firmly on the
contemporary but with strategic samplings in earlier cultural texts
(the American transcendentalists, modernist fiction) that
anticipate present-day anxieties about the nonhuman, while at the
same time offering important conceptual tools for working through
them.
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