Lucky Mud & Other Foma - A Field Guide to Kurt Vonnegut s Environmentalism and Planetary

A fascinating deep dive into Kurt Vonnegut’s oeuvre and legacy, illuminating his unique perspective on environmental stewardship and our shared connections as humans, Earthlings, and stardust. Vonnegut’s major apocalyptic trio-- Vonnegut saw writing itself as an act of good citizenship, as a way of “poisoning” the minds of young people “with humanity . . . to encourage them to make a better world.” Often that literary activism meant addressing real social and environmental problems--polluted water, soil, and air; the plasticization of cultures and lives; racial and economic injustice; isolating and dehumanizing technologies; and lives and landscapes desolated by war. Vonnegut’s remedies took many forms, from the redemptive power of the arts to artificial extended families to vital communities and engaged democracies. Reminding us of our shared connections as humans, as Earthlings, as stardust,

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Christina Jarvis

Product details

• Authors: Christina Jarvis
• Publisher: Seven stories press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.07.2024
• EAN: 9781644213919
• ISBN: 978-1-64421-391-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 227 mm x 25 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies