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Affective ecocriticism : emotion, embodiment, environment / edited by Kyle Bladow and Jennifer Ladino

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Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 343 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Bladow, Kyle A., 1985- and Ladino, Jennifer K.
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Contents
Toward an affective ecocriticism: placing feeling in the anthropocene / Kyle Bladow and Jennifer Ladino -- Theoretical foundations "what do we do but keep breathing as best we can this minute atmosphere": Juliana Spahr and anthropocene anxiety" / Nicole Merola -- From nostalgic longing to solastalgic distress: a cognitive approach to love in the anthropocene / Alexa Weik von Mossner -- A new gentleness: affective ficto-regionality / Neil Campbell -- Affective attachments: land, bodies, justice feeling the fires of climate change: land affect in Canada's tar sands / Jobb Arnold -- Wendell Berry and the affective turn / William Major -- A hunger for words: food affects and embodied ideology / Tom Hertweck -- Uncanny homesickness and war: loss of affect, loss of place, and reworlding in redeployment / Ryan Hediger -- Animality: feeling species and boundaries desiring species with Darwin and Freud / Robert Azzarello -- Tragedy, ecophobia, and animality in the anthropocene / Brian Deyo -- Futurity without optimism: detaching from anthropocentrism and grieving our fathers in beasts of the southern wild / Allyse Knox-Russell -- Environmentalist killjoys: politics and pedagogy the queerness of environmental affect / Nicole Seymour -- Feeling let down: affect, environmentalism, and the power of negative thinking / Lisa Ottum -- Feeling depleted: ecocinema and the atmospherics of affect / Graig Uhlin -- Feeling fine at the end of the world: the affect arc of undergraduate environmental studies curricula / Sarah Jaquette Ray.
Summary
"Affective Ecocriticism approaches emergent affects in relation to environments with a sense of urgency and an accessible style that will speak to readers across a range of disciplinary and geographic locations"--
Scholars of ecocriticism have long tried to articulate emotional relationships to environments. Only recently, however, have they begun to draw on the complex interdisciplinary body of research known as affect theory. Affective Ecocriticism takes as its premise that ecocritical scholarship has much to gain from the rich work on affect and emotion happening within social and cultural theory, geography, psychology, philosophy, queer theory, feminist theory, narratology, and neuroscience, among others. This vibrant and important volume imagines a more affective--and consequently more effective--ecocriticism, as well as a more environmentally attuned affect studies. These interdisciplinary essays model a range of approaches to emotion and affect in considering a variety of primary texts, including short story collections, films, poetry, curricular programs, and contentious geopolitical locales such as Canada's Tar Sands. Several chapters deal skeptically with familiar environmentalist affects like love, hope, resilience, and optimism; others consider what are often understood as negative emotions, such as anxiety, disappointment, and homesickness--all with an eye toward reinvigorating or reconsidering their utility for the environmental humanities and environmentalism. Affective Ecocriticism offers an accessible approach to this theoretical intersection that will speak to readers across multiple disciplinary and geographic locations.
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9781496208569 (electronic bk.)
1496208560 (electronic bk.)
9781496208583 (electronic bk.)
1496208587 (electronic bk.)
9781496208576 (mobi)
1496208579 (mobi)
9781496206794 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1496206797 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781496207562 (paperback ; alk. paper)
1496207564 (paperback ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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