Haunted Nature: Entanglements of the Human and the Nonhuman - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3030818713 ISBN 13 : 9783030818715

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022

Synopsis

This volume is a study of human entanglements with Nature as seen through the mode of haunting. As an interruption of the present by the past, haunting can express contemporary anxieties concerning our involvement in the transformation of natural environments and their ecosystems, and our complicity in their collapse. It can also express a much-needed sense of continuity and relationality. The complexity of the question--who and what gets to be called human with respect to the nonhuman--is reflected in these collected chapters, which, in their analysis of cinematic and literary representations of sentient Nature within the traditional gothic trope of haunting, bring together history, race, postcolonialism, and feminism with ecocriticism and media studies. Given the growing demand for narratives expressing our troubled relationship with Nature, it is imperative to analyze this contested ground.
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À propos de l'auteur

Sladja Blazan is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Her areas of research include speculative fiction, critical posthumanism, critical refugee studies, and migration as a literary topic.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3030818713
• ISBN 13: 9783030818715
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Éditeur: Blazan Sladja
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