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Water Stories in the Anthropocene explores how climate change has emerged as a major theme in our daily lives as it poses a myriad of economic, scientific, political and cultural challenges in the age of the Anthropocene.
Water Stories in the Anthropocene explores how climate change has emerged as a major theme in our daily lives as it poses a myriad of economic, scientific, political and cultural challenges in the age of the Anthropocene.
Angelo Monaco, Ph.D. from the University of Pisa (2017), is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bari "Aldo Moro." He is a section editor of the journal Postcolonial Text. He specialises in contemporary South Asian and British literature and his primary lines of research include environmental concerns, trauma studies, globalisation studies and postcolonialism. He is the author of Jhumpa Lahiri. Vulnerabilità e resilienza (ETS, 2019).
Introduction: Water Stories, the Anthropocene and Climate Change
Aquatic culture, the blue humanities and climate change
What is climate change?
What is the Anthropocene?
From waves of ecocriticism to the blue humanities
Cli-fi: climate change fiction or climate fiction?
Book organisation
1. Water Scarcity and Drought
Karen Jayes: For the Mercy of Water (2012)
Paolo Bacigalupi: The Water Knife (2015)
Cynan Jones: Stillicide (2019)
2. Flooding and Deluge
Amitav Ghosh: The Hungry Tide (2005)
Amitav Ghosh: Gun Island (2019)
Sarah Moss: Summerwater (2020)
3. Wetlands
Graham Swift: Waterland (1983)
Jhumpa Lahiri: The Lowland (2013)
Alexis Wright: The Swan Book (2013)
4. Storied Seas
Ben Smith: Doggerland (2019)
Monique Roffey: Archipelago (2012)
Nnedi Okorafor: Lagoon (2014)
Conclusion: The Future of the Blue Humanities
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2024 |
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Genre: | Allgemeine Lexika, Importe |
Rubrik: | Literaturwissenschaft |
Medium: | Buch |
ISBN-13: | 9781032861326 |
ISBN-10: | 1032861320 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Monaco, Angelo |
Hersteller: | Routledge |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 235 x 157 x 15 mm |
Von/Mit: | Angelo Monaco |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 21.10.2024 |
Gewicht: | 0,448 kg |