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Beastly Mondernisms

Beastly Modernisms: Animal Figurations in Modernist Literature and Culture Edited by Alex Goody and Saskia McCracken beastlymodernisms@gmail.com Deadline for Abstracts: 14 September 2020

This edited volume aims to bring together scholarship from across literature and culture to engage with the animal turn in modernist studies. We welcome work by early career researchers and are particularly interested in chapters which address critical race studies, indigeneity, colonialism, modernisms of the global south and marginalised modernists.

Call for Chapters If modernism heralded a moment of socio-political, cultural and aesthetic transformation, it also instigated a refashioning of ...

Visualizando el Cambio: Humanidades Ambientales / Envisioning Change: Environmental Humanities

McIntyre Amy

Edited by Carmen Flys-Junquera and Alejandro Rivero-Vadillo.  Vernon Press, October 2020.  ISBN: 9781648890376

The 21st century has been described by many environmental scholars as the one in which humanity will need to face its greatest challenge. The diverse ramifications of the climatic crisis are perhaps the most evident proof of this. This dual-lingual multiauthor volume reflects different perspectives of envisioning an eco-social change towards a more sustainable and just society. Musings on the philosophical implications of utopias, ecofeminism, biopolitics, and biomimicry come together with ...