The Infrastructure of Emergency (Paperback)

Contributors to this special issue explore the ways literature and literary studies contribute to historical understandings and imagined futures of infrastructure under conditions of planetary ecological emergency. Focusing particularly on the infrastructures of empire and capital, as well as the local and global environmental ramifications of their historical unfolding, the authors consider the roles that literature can play in the theorization of infrastructure. The issue covers how settler capitalism has shaped the infrastructural transformation of the continent, from the settler colonial project of the nineteenth century to "transform dirt into infrastructure" to the deep entanglement of ecological emergency with the arrival of the internet in the United States. The issue also focuses on the intersections of infrastructure with the ongoing emergencies of racial oppression. It covers topics ranging from an emergent formal technique in contemporary African American fiction called "geomemory"-where the racial emergencies of the present are revealed to be the result of still-active infrastructures of the plantation-to the conglomeration of the buildings, laws, institutions, and capital markets that constitute the US healthcare system. Contributors. John Levi Barnard, Suzanne F. Boswell, Rebecca Evans, Stephanie Foote, Michelle N. Huang, Jessica Hurley, Jeffrey Insko, Andrew Kopec, Kelly McKisson, Jamin Creed Rowan

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2021
First published:	2021
Editors:	Stephanie Foote • John Levi Barnard • Jessica Hurley • Jeffrey Insko
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	217
ISBN-13:	978-1-4780-1496-6
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > General
LSN:	1-4780-1496-2
Barcode:	9781478014966

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