Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 238 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781350271340
,
9781350271326
,
9781350271333
Series Statement:
Environmental cultures
Content:
"Exploring a variety of environmental concerns and surveying a wide range of contemporary poetry, fiction, and memoir by women writers, this book argues for the centrality of individual encounter and fragmentary form in twenty-first-century literature. In accounts of both solitude and community, these texts find new ways to respond to the present in the absence of explanatory narratives. The work considered here provides new ways to consider questions of attention, care, and loss: rather than emphasising planetary change, they highlight the role of individual agency and enmeshment in a more-than-human world. Proposing a new model of 'gleaning' to encompass ideas of collection, assemblage, and relinquishment, this book moves from accounts of individual encounters to collective care, and considers questions of the archive, classification systems, performance, and storytelling. In doing so, it highlights the way fragmentary texts can be seen as a mode of resistance. Including analyses of works by both familiar and emerging writers, including Sara Baume, Ali Smith, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Bhanu Kapil, Kathleen Jamie, and many others, this book also draws on theoretical perspectives such as ecofeminism, new materialism, posthumanism, and affect theory."
Note:
Prologue: Aberdonian Gleanings: MacGillivray, Jamie, and the Natural Fragment Introduction: Gleaning, Storytelling, and Constellations: The Uses of Fragmentation -- Chapter 1: 'Edgeless, Sparking, Alone': Solitude and Attention -- Chapter 2: 'How It Had All Connected': Assemblage, Classification, and Performance -- Chapter 3: Archives of Care: Mourning, Echoes, and the Reader as Gleaner -- Conclusion: 'Particle sings to particle': Gleaning the Present -- Bibliography
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-350-27131-9
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
,
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Frauenliteratur
;
Autobiografie
;
Ökologie
;
Umwelt
;
Geschichte 2000-2020
;
Englisch
;
Ecocriticism
;
Ökologie
;
Umwelt
;
Geschichte 2000-2020
DOI:
10.5040/9781350271340
URL:
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