In this new work, Patrick Whitmarsh analyzes postwar narrative fictions that describe, depict, or express the earth from above (the aerial) and below (the subterranean), revealing the ways that literature has engaged this history of vertical science and linked it to increasing environmental precarity, up to and including the extinction of humankind.
In this new work, Patrick Whitmarsh analyzes postwar narrative fictions that describe, depict, or express the earth from above (the aerial) and below (the subterranean), revealing the ways that literature has engaged this history of vertical science and linked it to increasing environmental precarity, up to and including the extinction of humankind.
Patrick Whitmarsh is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at Wofford College. He has published essays in MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, JML: The Journal of Modern Literature, and SFS: Science Fiction Studies.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: The Vertical Anthropocene 1. Earthly Language: Don DeLillo and the Novel of the Anthropocene 2. Plot Holes: Anthropocene Fiction After Project Mohole 3. Overview Effects: Anthropocene Fiction in the Orbital Field 4. Fossil Labor: Anthropocene Fiction and the Racial Politics of Extinction Underview: Writing Our Resilience
Introduction: The Vertical Anthropocene 1. Earthly Language: Don DeLillo and the Novel of the Anthropocene 2. Plot Holes: Anthropocene Fiction After Project Mohole 3. Overview Effects: Anthropocene Fiction in the Orbital Field 4. Fossil Labor: Anthropocene Fiction and the Racial Politics of Extinction Underview: Writing Our Resilience
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