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Entanglements, Narratives, and the Environment: Inter-American Perspectives 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. In light of Amitav Ghosh’s (2016) exploration of “a crisis of the imagination” in the face of climate change and environmental degradation, this book addresses the potential of literature, history, and politics in comprehending the profound dimensions and violence of these challenges. The chapters show, among others, that the Anthropocene demands fresh narratives and theoretical perspectives, particularly within the framework of Inter-American Studies, which can offer a new venue to discuss pressing issues and to provide intersectional and inter-regional considerations. Thus, drawing on Inter-American perspective with its hemispheric perspectives opens the possibilities for an ecocritical reading of the complexities and relationalities of the climate crisis in the humanities as well as the social sciences. As a result, the book includes historical and political analysis, as well as literary, cultural and film analysis of texts from the Americas. The chapters engage in deconstructing popular myths, de-centering Western approaches, and eventually show through these critical engagements how the climate crisis demands multi-dimensional readings.

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Table 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

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Published 19 Nov 2024
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 178
ISBN 9781666968286
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 11 BW Illustrations
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Nicole Haring

Nicole Haring is senior scientist at the Center fo…

Anthology Editor

Roberta Maierhofer

Roberta Maierhofer is professor of American studie…

Anthology Editor

Eva Bauer

Eva Bauer earned her Joint Master’s degree i…

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Lena Leßlhumer

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Nicole Haring

Nicole Haring is senior scientist at the Center fo…

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Michael Fuchs

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