German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene

Edited by Caroline Schaumann and Heather I. Sullivan. Palgrave Macmillan US: New York, 2017.

Featuring contributions by: Schaumann and Sullivan, Ursula Heise, Simon Richter, Alexander Phillips, Bernhard Malkmus, Kate Rigby, Evi Zemanek, Sabine Wilke and Cora L. Wilke-Gray, Christoph Weber, Sean Ireton, Brad Prager, Katharina Gerstenberger, Jason Groves, Axel Goodbody, and Gabriele Dürbeck.

Sections on: ​”The Anthropocene and the Challenge of Cultural Difference,” “Ecological Systems and Place in the Anthropocene,” “Vibrant Matter: Rocks, Mines, Air, and Food,” “Catastrophe, Crisis, and Cultural Exploitation, and “Genres in the Anthropocene.”

This book offers essays on both canonical and non-canonical German-language texts and films, advancing ecocritical models for German Studies, and introducing environmental issues in German literature and film to a broader audience. This volume contextualizes the broad-ranging topics and authors in terms of the Anthropocene, beginning with Goethe and the Romantics and extending into twenty-first-century literature and film. Addressing the growing need for environmental awareness in an international humanities curriculum, this book complements ecocritical analyses emerging from North American and British studies with a specifically German Studies perspective, opening the door to a transnational understanding of how the environment plays an integral role in cultural, political, and economic issues.

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