Editors:
Explores the intersections between posthumanism, ecocriticism and life writing
Questions whether life writing can evolve to take the posthuman into account, being bound to human perspectives
Examines how research on life writing can help us to navigate the environmental crises of the Anthropocene
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing (PSLW)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Responsible Relationality
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Front Matter
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Relational Responsibility
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- Climate change
- Ecological disaster
- Autobiography
- Nature
- Humanity
- Human perspective
- Posthumanism
- Consumption
- Environmental crisis
- Weather
- Feminism
Editors and Affiliations
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American Studies, Faculty of Philology & History, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
Ina Batzke, Linda M. Hess
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American Studies, Faculty of Humanities & Cultural Studies, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
Lea Espinoza Garrido
About the editors
Ina Batzke is a researcher and lecturer in American Studies at the University of Augsburg, Germany. She has published a monograph on life narratives of undocumented migrants and co-edited a special issue on Storied Citizenship. Her current research project concerns the productivity of nature writing as a genre for the Anthropocene.
Lea Espinoza Garrido is a researcher and lecturer in American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. She has published on racialized and gendered representations in contemporary American and European popular culture and has co-edited a special issue on Migrant States of Exception.
Linda M. Hess is a senior lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of American Studies at the University of Augsburg, Germany. She is the author of Queer Aging in North American Fiction (2019). Her current research focuses on ideas of grievability, preservation, and loss in ecocriticism.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene
Editors: Ina Batzke, Lea Espinoza Garrido, Linda M. Hess
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77973-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77972-6Published: 14 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77975-7Published: 15 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-77973-3Published: 01 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2730-9185
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9193
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 268
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ecocriticism, World Literature, Literary Methods, Narratology