Living and Dying in the Anthropocene: Responses in Contemporary Literature from the Western Hemisphere

Deadline: July 1, 2023
Contact: Brian Railsback, Professor of English, Western Carolina University
Email: brailsba@wcu.edu
Phone: 8282273933

This special issue of American Literatures (www.amlit.eu) will explore the question: how has the 21st century literature of the Americas responded to the greatest crisis in human history? Given the broad implications of the Anthropocene, contemporary eco-literature intersects with many ideas: ecocriticism, environmental justice, ecofeminism, ecoethics, place, and ethnic—particularly indigenous—literature. This issue of AmLit aims to explore responses to the ecological disasters posed by the Anthropocene in contemporary fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and other relevant literary genres. Please send proposals of no more that 600 words to Brian Railsback (brailsba@wcu.edu) by July 1, 2023. Questions via email are welcome.

Posted on May 10, 2023