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The Disposition of Nature – Environmental Crisis and World Literature

Autor Jennifer Wenzel
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 dec 2019
Shortlisted, 2020 ASAP Book Prize
How do literature and other cultural forms shape how we imagine the planet, for better or worse? In this rich, original, and long awaited book, Jennifer Wenzel tackles the formal innovations, rhetorical appeals, and sociological imbrications of world literature that might help us confront unevenly distributed environmental crises, including global warming. The Disposition of Nature argues that assumptions about what nature is are at stake in conflicts over how it is inhabited or used. Both environmental discourse and world literature scholarship tend to confuse parts and wholes. Working with writing and film from Africa, South Asia, and beyond, Wenzel takes a contrapuntal approach to sites and subjects dispersed across space and time. Reading for the planet, Wenzel shows, means reading from near to there: across experiential divides, between specific sites, at more than one scale. Impressive in its disciplinary breadth, Wenzel's book fuses insights from political ecology, geography, anthropology, history, and law, while drawing on active debates between postcolonial theory and world literature, as well as scholarship on the Anthropocene and the material turn. In doing so, the book shows the importance of the literary to environmental thought and practice, elaborating how a supple understanding of cultural imagination and narrative logics can foster more robust accounts of global inequality and energize movements for justice and livable futures.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780823286782
ISBN-10: 0823286789
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 188 x 237 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.67 kg
Editura: ME – Fordham University Press

Cuprins

Introduction: Reading for the Planet | 1
Part I: Citizens and Consumers
1. Consumption for the Common Good? Commodity
Biography in an Era of Postconsumerism | 49
2. Hijacking the Imagination: How to Tell the Story
of the Niger Delta | 81
Part II: Resource Logics and Risk Logics
3. From Waste Lands to Wasted Lives: Enclosure
as Aesthetic Regime and Property Regime | 141
4. How Far Is Bhopal? Inconvenient
Forums and Corporate Comparison | 195
Epilogue: Fixing the World | 259
Acknowledgments | 265
Notes | 267
Bibliography | 303
Index | 327


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Jennifer Wenzel

Descriere

This book examines how literature shapes understandings of nature and can therefore be both complicit in environmental harm and part of an environmentalist practice. The book devotes particular attention to formerly colonized regions (e.g. Africa and South Asia) in order to understand the relationships among imperialism, globalization, and environmental injustice.