Entanglements, Narratives, and the Environment - Inter-American Perspectives

This book provides an interdisciplinary ecocritical reading of narratives and environmental entanglements from an Inter-American perspective, predominantly providing literary, film, and cultural analysis of texts from the Americas. It shows that the Anthropocene demands new narratives and theoretical approaches to tackle the climate crisis.

List of contents

Part I: Histories: Indigeneity, Coloniality, and Human Rights
Chapter 1
The Mortality Cost of Carbon Extraction: Oil, Indigenous Lives, and Human Rights in the Americas
Georgiana Banita
Chapter 2
Environmental Coloniality and 'Regressive' Neo-Extractivism
Ricardo Pagliuso Regatieri
Part II: Literatures: Multi-Species Stories and Human-Nature Entanglements
Chapter 3
The Weather in Thoreau: Different Dimensions of Climate (Change) in Walden and Beyond
Robert A. Winkler
Chapter 4
Thornton Wilder's Un-Aristotelian Warning: The Skin of Our Teeth as Climate Play
Réka M. Cristian
Chapter 5
The Environmental Paradox of Robotics. A Reading of Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Adriana Kiczkowski
Chapter 6
Living in Symbiosis with Nature: Race and the American Landscape as Depicted in Joseph Drew Lanham's Life Writing The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature (2016)
Lena Leßlhumer
Chapter 7
The Last Generation: Cherríe Moraga's Prose and Poetry, the Chthulucene, and Intersectional Environmentalism
Nicole Haring
Part III: Films: (In)Justices and Hope
Chapter 8
The Vertical Dimension of the American West: Mining and the Media Archaeology of Navajo Land
Michael Fuchs and Christian Quendler
Chapter 9
Staying Hopeful with Climate Change: A Documentary Analysis
Francesca Mallocci

About the author

Edited by Nicole Haring; Roberta Maierhofer and Eva Bauer - Contributions by Georgiana Banita; Ricardo Pagliuso Regatieri; Robert A. Winkler; Réka M. Cristian; Adriana Kiczkowski; Lena Leßlhumer; Nicole Haring; Michael Fuchs; Christian Quendler and France

Product details

• Authors: Nicole Maierhofer Haring
• Assisted by: Eva Bauer (Editor), Eva Bauer (Editor), Nicole Haring (Editor), Maierhofer Roberta (Editor), Nicole Haring (Editor), Roberta Maierhofer (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2024
• EAN: 9781666968279
• ISBN: 978-1-66696-827-9
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Political activism, Social issues & processes, United States of America, USA, Social and ethical issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice, Political activism / Political engagement