Title | Introduction: Planetary memory in contemporary American fiction |
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Type | Edited issue |
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Authors | Bond, L., de Bruyn, B. and Rapson, J. |
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Abstract | This special issue considers the ways in which contemporary American fiction seeks to imagine a mode of ‘planetary memory’ able to address the scalar and systemic complexities of the Anthropocene – the epoch in which the combined activity of the human species has become a geological force in its own right. As Naomi Klein has recently argued, confronting the problem of anthropogenic climate change alters everything we know about the world: demanding wholesale recalibration of economic and political priorities; destabilising the epistemic frameworks through which quotidian life is interpreted and enacted; and decentring the dominant cultural imaginaries that seek to give form to historical experience |
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Keywords | memory, planetary, environment, trauma, natural history |
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Journal | Textual Practice |
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Journal citation | 31 (5), pp. 853-866 |
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ISSN | 0950-236X |
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Year | 2017 |
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Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2017.1323458 |
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Publication dates |
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Published online | 14 Jun 2017 |
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Published | 14 Jun 2017 |
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