The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature
By Jennifer Wenzel. Fordham, 2019.
How do literature and other cultural forms shape how we imagine the planet, for better or worse? In this new book, Jennifer Wenzel examines the formal innovations, rhetorical appeals, and sociological imbrications of world literature that might help us confront unevenly distributed environmental crises, including global warming.
The Disposition of Nature argues that assumptions about what nature is are at stake in conflicts over how it is inhabited or used. Both environmental discourse and world literature scholarship tend to confuse ...
Hispanic Ecocriticism
Edited by José Manuel Marrero Henríquez. Peter Lang, 2019.
Hispanic Ecocriticism finds a rich soil in the main topics of environmental concern in the literature of Latin America and Spain, not only as a source for renewing critical analysis and hermeneutics but also for the benefit of global environmental awareness. In a renewed exchange of transatlantic relationships, Hispanic Ecocriticism intermingles Latin American ecocritical issues of interest–the oil industry; contamination of forest and rivers; urban ecologies; African, Andean, and Amazonian biocultural ecosystems–with those of interest in ...