Ecosickness in contemporary U.S. fiction : environment and affect

Ecosickness in contemporary U.S. fiction environment and affect

This title traces the development of 'Ecosickness fiction' through an assessment of contemporary U.S. novels and memoirs. It describes how the 1970s brought about a new understanding of the biological and intellectual impacts that environmental crisis can have on human beings. It shows tha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Houser, Heather (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press 2014.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 Ecosickness
  • Sickness in a Technoscientific Age 8
  • Life, Ethics, and Action 12
  • Ecosickness in the Field 19
  • Outline of the Book 27
  • 2 AIDS Memoirs Out of the City: Discordant Natures 31
  • Prologue 31
  • Contested Natures 39
  • North Enough's "Difficult Beauties" 46
  • The "Con" in Close to the Knives 55
  • Discordant Feelings, Suspicious Stances 65
  • Discord in Activism 72
  • 3 Richard Powers's Strange Wonder 77
  • "Weirdly Alive" with Wonder 81
  • "The Ordinary by Another Name" 93
  • "Struggling with Complex Interactions" 100
  • "The Ethic of Tending" 109
  • 4 Infinite Jest's Environmental Case for Disgust 117
  • Detached Dispositions 124
  • "Experial" Ambitions 130
  • Body Building 139
  • Affective Itineraries 145
  • How to Do Things with Disgust 152
  • 5 The Anxiety of Intervention in Leslie Marmon Silko and Marge Piercy 167
  • Disrupting the "Pattern of Disease" 170
  • "A Single Configuration" of Land and Body 175
  • Iniquitous Interventions 185
  • Anxious Apocalypse 195
  • Squirming and Trembling 208.

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