Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene (Palgrave Studies in Life Writing) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3030779750 ISBN 13: 9783030779757

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022

Synopsis

Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene is a timely collection of insightful contributions that negotiate how the genre of life writing, traditionally tied to the human perspective and thus anthropocentric qua definition, can provide adequate perspectives for an age of ecological disasters and global climate change. The volume’s eight chapters illustrate the aptness of life writing and life writing studies to critically reevaluate the role of “the human” vis-à-vis non-human others while remaining mindful of persisting inequalities between humans regarding who causes and who suffers damage in the Anthropocene age. The authors in this collection not only expand the toolbox of life writing studies by engaging with critical insights from the fields of posthumanism and ecocriticism, but, in turn, also enrich those fields by offering unique approaches to contemplate the responsibility of humans for as well as their relational existence in the posthuman Anthropocene.

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About the Author

Ina Batzke is a researcher and lecturer in American Studies at the University of Augsburg, Germany. She has published a monograph on life narratives of undocumented migrants and co-edited a special issue on Storied Citizenship. Her current research project concerns the productivity of nature writing as a genre for the Anthropocene.

Lea Espinoza Garrido is a researcher and lecturer in American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. She has published on racialized and gendered representations in contemporary American and European popular culture and has co-edited a special issue on Migrant States of Exception.

Linda M. Hess is a senior lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of American Studies at the University of Augsburg, Germany. She is the author of Queer Aging in North American Fiction (2019). Her current research focuses on ideas of grievability, preservation, and loss in ecocriticism.

InaBatzke is researcher and lecturer in American Studies at the University of Augsburg, Germany. 

Lea Espinoza Garrido is a researcher and lecturer in American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Wuppertal, Germany.

Linda M. Hess is a senior lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of American Studies at the University of Augsburg, Germany. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030779750
• ISBN 13: 9783030779757
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277
• Editor: Batzke Ina, Espinoza Garrido Lea, Hess Linda M.