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The book explores the key concerns in the United States of America, as well as around the world today, related to the significance of ecology, eco-consciousness and climate change.
The chapters by individual authors reflect the topics both from a theoretical and from an ecocritical perspective. In the former case, they analyze effects of the present ecological crises (i.e. climate change and pandemics), the emergence and development of environmental humanities, posthumanism, ecocriticism, ecofeminism, and ecotheology. In the latter case, they offer readings of American literary texts of the 20th and 21st centuries as significant case studies.
List of contents
the anthropocene, eco-systems, ecocritical readings, ecodefense, environmental awareness, posthumanism and transhumanism, solar- and cyberpunk, utopia and dystopia
About the author
Adina Ciugureanu is Professor Emerita of British and American Studies at
OvidiusUniversity, Constanta, Romania. Her research interests and publications focus on aspects related to British and American nineteenth- and twentieth century literature, Modernism, feminist studies, eco- and geo-criticism.
Eduard Vlad is Professor of American Studies at
OvidiusUniversity, Constanta, Romania. His interests and publications include issues of literary and cultural studies, with relevant aspects of identity theory in the globalization age.
