Life Writing in the Anthropocene

ISBN-13: 9780367704360 / Miękka / 2023 / 278 str.

Opis

Life Writing in the Anthropocene is a collection of timely and original approaches to the question of what constitutes a life, how that life is narrated, and what lives matter in autobiography studies in the Anthropocene.

Spis treści

Introduction

Life: Writing and Rights in the Anthropocene

Jessica White and Gillian Whitlock

The Process

1. From the Miniature to the Momentous: Writing Lives through Ecobiography

Jessica White

2. Period Rhetoric, Countersignature, and the Australian Novel

Thomas Bristow

3. Writing Toward and With: Ethological Poetics and Nonhuman Lives

Stuart Cooke

4. Becoming D | other: Life as a Transmuting Device

Astrid Joutseno

Essays

5. Writing the Lives of Plants: Phytography and the Botanical Imagination

John Charles Ryan

6. "If a Tree Falls …" : Posthuman Testimony in C. D. Wright’s Casting Deep Shade,

Eamonn Connor

7. Writing the Lives of Fungi at the End of the World

Alexis Harley

8. Planetary Delta: Anthropocene Lives in the Blues Memoir

Parker Krieg

9. Memoir and the End of the Natural World

Tony Hughes-d’Aeth

10. "As Closely Bonded as We are:" Animalographies, Kinship, and Conflict in Ceridwen Dovey’s Only the Animals and Eva Hornung’s Dog Boy

Grace Moore

Forum: Writing the Lives of Other-than-Humans

11. "Desperation for Life": Writing Death in the Anthropocene

Jessica White and Gillian Whitlock

Forums

12. Writing the Cow: Poetry, Activism, and the Texts of Meat

Jessica Holmes

13. Sheep: Voice | Complicity | Precedent

Barbara Holloway

14. A Triumphal Entry, a Stifled Cry, a Hushed Retreat

Rick De Vos

What’s Next?

15. Her Biography: Deborah Bird Rose

Stephen Muecke

Artist’s Statement

16. Artist’s Statement

Anna Laurent

O autorze

Jessica White is based at The University of Queensland, Australia. Her memoir about deafness, Hearing Maud, won the 2020 Michael Crouch Award for a debut work of biography. She is currently writing an ecobiography of nineteenth-century botanist Georgiana Molloy.

Gillian Whitlock is Emeritus Professor in Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland, Australia. She is currently writing Inhumanities: Refugee Lives in the Archives, a life narrative of asylum seekers in detention at the Nauru camp, and the testimony of the things they left behind.