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Blue Extinction in Literature, Culture, and Art examines literary and cultural representations of aquatic biodiversity loss, bringing together critical perspectives from the blue humanities and extinction studies. It demonstrates the affordances, as well as the limitations, of literary and artistic forms in exposing the plight of aquatic organisms, drawing attention to the social, political, and economic structures that are contributing to their destruction. Together, the essays in this collection demonstrate how literature and art can challenge dominant cultural conceptions and lingering misconceptions surrounding aquatic biodiversity loss, offering new ways of relating to species ranging from whales to oysters.
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Dr. Vera Fibisan is an Honorary Researcher at University of Sheffield, UK. She is a practice-based researcher and writer, focusing on bodies of water and marginalia. She has published poetry notably in
The Sheffield Anthology
(Smith/Doorstop, 2012),
CAST: The Poetry Business Book of New Contemporary Poets
(Smith/Doorstop, 2014), the
Wretched Strangers Anthology
(Boiler House Press, 2018) and
Voices for Change
(2020). She is ASLE-UKI Website and Social Media Officer, and Podcast Co-host of
Green Listening: Discussions in Ecocriticism
.
Rachel Murray is Lecturer in Literature and the Environment at University of Bristol, UK. She specializes in twentieth-century literature, animal studies, and the environment. She is the author of T
he Modernist Exoskeleton: Insects, War, Literary Form
(2020) and is the editor (with Caroline Hovanec) of “Reading Modernism in the Sixth Extinction” for
Modernism/modernity
. She has published articles in the
Journal of Modern Literature
,
Humanities
, and the
Journal of Literature and Science
, among other venues. She is currently writing a book about marine life in modern and contemporary poetry, provisionally entitled
Marine Attachments
.
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Blue Extinction in Literature, Culture, and Art
examines literary and cultural representations of aquatic biodiversity loss, bringing together critical perspectives from the blue humanities and extinction studies. It demonstrates the affordances, as well as the limitations, of literary and artistic forms in exposing the plight of aquatic organisms, drawing attention to the social, political, and economic structures that are contributing to their destruction. Together, the essays in this collection demonstrate how literature and art can challenge dominant cultural conceptions and lingering misconceptions surrounding aquatic biodiversity loss, offering new ways of relating to species ranging from whales to oysters.
