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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

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).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
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
Artikel-ID: 131599523

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