Entanglements, Narratives, and the Environment: Inter-American Perspectives
Edited by Nicole Haring, Roberta Maierhofer, and Eva Bauer
Entanglements, Narratives, and the Environment: Inter-American Perspectives provides an interdisciplinary ecocritical reading of narratives and environmental entanglements from an Inter-American perspective, predominantly through literary, film, and cultural analyses 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 to comprehend the profound dimensions and violence of these challenges.
The chapters demonstrate, among other insights, that the Anthropocene demands fresh narratives and theoretical perspectives, particularly within the framework of Inter-American Studies. This framework offers a new avenue to discuss pressing issues and provides intersectional and inter-regional considerations. Drawing on an Inter-American perspective with its hemispheric lens opens up possibilities for ecocritical readings of the complexities and relationalities of the climate crisis in both the humanities and the social sciences.
As a result, the book includes historical and political analyses as well as literary, cultural, and film studies of texts from the Americas. The chapters engage in deconstructing popular myths, decentering Western approaches, and, through these critical engagements, demonstrate how the climate crisis demands multi-dimensional readings.
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