Environmental Futures

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An International Literary Anthology

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A global anthology, curated by experts from around the world, draws on fiction and poetry to examine environmental challenges and their implications for communities. Featuring short stories, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction from around the world, this anthology showcases contemporary literature to envision the future of... Read More

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Environmental Futures

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"This volume is an anthology of fiction and poems by authors from around the world that highlights the diversity of stories that flow from experiences of the natural world, giving particular emphasis to those that wrestle with the legacy of colonialism and its approach to nature as a resource to be exploited"--

Description

A global anthology, curated by experts from around the world, draws on fiction and poetry to examine environmental challenges and their implications for communities.

Featuring short stories, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction from around the world, this anthology showcases contemporary literature to envision the future of the environment. While environmental literature written in English has been dominated by English and American men who make solo explorations into an unspoiled natural world, Environmental Futures emphasizes local and indigenous writers contending with global landscapes that are far from pristine. Their work opens up decolonial perspectives from Anglophone Africa, South Asia, India, China, South America, the peripheries of Europe, and BIPoC North America.

Introducing many writers who will be unfamiliar to English-speaking readers, this collection explores resistance to the oil economy, the impact of storms and natural disasters, extinction, and relations between humans and animals, among other themes.

The pieces are organized by geographical area in five sections: Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. Expert scholars and translators—Kurt Cavender, Roberto Forns-Broggi, Cajetan Iheka, Upamanyu (Pablo) Mukherjee, Irina Sadovina, and Shaobo Xie—selected the works and provided critical introductions for each section.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781684582112

Publisher: Brandeis University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 May 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Brandeis University Press

Contributors:

Edited by Caren Irr
Edited by Anik Chartrand
Edited by Kurt Cavander
Edited by Roberto Forns-Broggi
Edited by Cajetan Iheka
Edited by Upamanyu Mukherjee
Edited by Irina Sadovina

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 33.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 680g

Pages: 360

Collections

Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Education & Reference Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Caren Irr is professor of English and the Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Professor of Humanities at Brandeis University. She is the author or editor of five previous books, among them Toward the Geopolitical Novel: U.S. Fiction in the Twenty-First Century and The Suburb of Dissent: Cultural Politics in the United States and Canada during the 1930s.