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Global Fictions and Environmental Disaster

Imagining Survival on Our Changing Planet

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Global Fictions and Environmental Disaster

Imagining Survival on Our Changing Planet

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Description

Examining contemporary literary depictions of environmental disasters through a North–South axis, this book explores the resonances and dissonances between environmentalisms of marginalized communities in the U.S. and the global South.

Pairing anti-colonial texts from the United States with examples from the Global South, it interrogates the complexity of global precarity and particular forms of environmental violence. Each pairing is linked to a specific manifestation of environmental disaster, such as hurricane, drought, species extinction, and agricultural collapse.

Featuring texts from authors such as Jesmyn Ward, Monique Roffey, Paolo Bacigalupi, Alexis Wright, Linda Hogan, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Ruth Ozeki, and Sonora Jha, this book models how a comparative (global North-global South) approach to literary studies can help us untangle the complex power dynamics and differentials of the Anthropocene.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Weathering the Superstorm in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones
and Monique Roffey's Archipelago
Chapter 2. Mega-drought and the Unseasonable Youth of Paulo Bacigalupi's The Water Knife and Alexis Wright's The Swan Book
Chapter 3. Feline Extinction and Emplotting the Trophic Cascade in Linda Hogan's Power and Henrietta Rose-Innes's Green Lion
Coda
Bibliography

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 07 Aug 2025
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 256
ISBN 9781350353176
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Series Environmental Cultures
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Martin Premoli

Martin Premoli is Assistant Professor of English…

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