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Modernism and the Anthropocene explores twentieth-century
literature as it engages with the non-human world across a range of
contexts. From familiar modernist works by D.H. Lawrence and Hart
Crane to still-emergent genres like comics and speculative fiction,
this volume tackles a series of related questions regarding how
best to understand humanity’s increasing domination of the
natural world.
This book invites readers to consider ways in which their language
and literacy teaching practices can better value and build upon the
brilliance of every child. In doing so, it highlights the ways in
which teachers and students build on diversities as strengths to
create more inclusive and responsive classrooms. After inviting
readers to consider and better understand the diverse language and
literacy practices of diverse children, it offers invitations for
teachers to make these practices foundational in their own
classrooms and to consider meaningful possibilities for learning
authentically with young children in primary grades. It features
chapters that focus on oral language, reading, and writing
development, all while recognizing that these are not separate. In
each of these chapters, readers are invited to consider diverse
possibilities, perspectives, and points of view in practice within
primary grades classrooms. Throughout, it offers ways to foster
classroom learning communities where racially, culturally, and
linguistically diverse children are supported and valued.
In this groundbreaking book, Jessica Martell investigates the
relationship between industrial food and the emergence of literary
modernisms in Britain and Ireland. By the early twentieth century,
the industrialization of the British Empire's food system had
rendered many traditional farming operations, and attendant
agrarian ways of life, obsolete. Weaving insights from modernist
studies, food studies, and ecocriticism, Farm to Form contends that
industrial food made nature "modernist," a term used as literary
scholars understand it stylistically disorienting, unfamiliar, and
artificial but also exhilarating, excessive, and above all, new.
Martell draws in part upon archives in the United Kingdom but also
presents imperial foodways as an extended rehearsal for the current
era of industrial food supremacy. She analyzes how pastoral mode,
anachronism, fragmentation, and polyvocal narration reflect the
power of the literary arts to reckon with, and to resist, the new
"modernist ecologies" of the twentieth century. Deeply informed by
Martell's extensive knowledge of modern British, Irish, American,
and World Literatures, this progressive work positions modernism as
central to the study of narratives of resistance against social and
environmental degradation. Analyzed works include those of Thomas
Hardy, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, George
Russell, and James Joyce. In light of climate change, fossil fuel
supremacy, nutritional dearth, and other pressing food issues,
modernist texts bring to life an era of crisis and anxiety similar
to our own. In doing so, Martell summons the past as a way to
employ the modernist term of "defamiliarizing" the present so that
entrenched perceptions can be challenged. Our current food regime
is both new and constantly evolving with the first industrial food
trades. Studying earlier cultural responses to them invites us to
return to persistent problems with new insights and renewed
passion.
Modernism and the Anthropocene explores twentieth-century
literature as it engages with the non-human world across a range of
contexts. From more familiar modernist works by D.H. Lawrence and
Hart Crane to still-emergent genres like comics and speculative
fiction, this volume tackles a series of related questions
regarding how best to understand humanity's increasing domination
of the natural world.
Transnational in scope, this much-needed volume explores how
modernist writers and artists address and critique dramatic changes
to food systems that took place in the early twentieth century. In
this period, small farms were being replaced with industrial
agriculture, political upheavals exacerbated food scarcity in many
countries, and globalization opened up new modes of distributing
culinary commodities. Looking at a unique variety of texts by
authors from Ireland, Italy, France, the United States, India, the
former Soviet Union, and New Zealand, contributors draw attention
to modernist representations of food. Among other topics, they
consider Oscar Wilde's aestheticization of food, Katherine
Mansfield's use of eggs as a feminist symbol, Langston Hughes's
frequent use of chocolate as a metaphor for blackness, Futurist
cuisine and avant-garde cookbooks, and the effects of national
famines in the work of James Joyce, Viktor Shklovsky, and
Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay. The diverse topics and methodologies
assembled here illustrate how food studies can enrich research in
the literary and visual arts. A milestone volume, this collection
introduces possibilities for understanding the connection between
modernist aesthetics and the emerging food cultures of a
globalizing world.
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