Planetary Memory in Contemporary American Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780367519773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 178 str.

Lucy Bond; Ben de Bruyn; Jessica Rapson

Opis

This book considers the ways in which contemporary American fiction seeks to imagine a mode of ‘planetary memory’ able to address the scalar and systemic complexities of the Anthropocene.  First published as a special issue of Textual Practice.

Spis treści

Introduction: Planetary memory in contemporary American fiction  1. Future readers: narrating the human in the Anthropocene  2. Speculative memory, the planetary and genre fiction  3. ‘Family territory’ to the ‘circumference of the earth’: local and planetary memories of climate change in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour  4. Writing the liquid city: excavating urban ecologies after Katrina  5. Realism 4°. Objects, weather and infrastructure in Ben Lerner’s 10:04  6. ‘I love Alaska’: posthuman subjectivity and memory on the final frontier of our ecological crisis  7. ‘In the eyeblink of a planet you were born, died, and your bones disintegrated’: scales of mourning and velocities of memory in Philipp Meyer’s American Rust  8. Afterword: The time of planetary memory