| Ecoprecarity: Vulnerable Lives in Literature and Culture Contributor(s): Nayar, Pramod K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367271052 ISBN-13: 9780367271053 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 2019013722 |
| Series: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.96 lbs) 186 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ecoprecarity: Vulnerable Lives in Literature and Culture presents an examination of ecoprecarity - the precarious lives that humans lead in the process and event of ecological disaster, and the increasing precarious state of the environment itself as a result of human interventions - in contemporary literary-cultural texts. It studies the representation of 'invasion narratives' of the human body and the earth by alien life forms, the ecodystopian vision that informs much environmental thought in popular cultures, the states of ontological integrity and genetic belonging in the age of cloning, xenotransplantation and biotechnology's 'capitalisation' of life itself, and the construction of the 'wild' in these texts. It pays attention to the ecological uncanny and the monstrous that haunts ecodystopias and forms of natureculture that emerge in the bioeconomies since the late twentieth century. |