Zazu Dreams: Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle, A Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene Era
By Cara Judea Alhadeff, PhD. Eifrig Publishing, 2024.
Merging fictional and nonfictional worlds, Zazu Dreams: Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle, A Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene Era is a climate chaos adventure fable and resource encyclopedia that explores the relationships among cross-cultural spiritualities, socio-political diversity, and biodiversity. In his dreams, Zazu, an Arab-Jewish boy, travels the globe on a humpback whale, crossing vast time and space. Learning from scientists, healers, engineers, architects, philosophers, musicians, and artists, many of whom are refugees and ...
In Inheritance of Drowning
By Dorsía Smith Silva. CavanKerry Press, 2024.
In Inheritance of Drowning begins with the exploration of the devastating Hurricane María in Puerto Rico. Written with vivid imagery, these poems highlight the natural world, significant impact of hurricanes, and marginalization of Puerto Ricans. The collection also explores the multiple sites of oppression in the United States, especially the social and political injustices and intersections of race and violence. Dorsía Smith Silva’s powerful voice confronts the “drowning” of BIPOC communities as they are displaced, exploited, and ...
Of Slash Pines and Manatees: A Highly Selective Field Guide to My Suburban Wilderness
By Andrew Furman. University Press of Florida, 2025.
Wings and talons clatter against a windowpane. Foxes den under a deck. Pines stand in quarter-acre lots, recalling a vanished forest. In this book, Andrew Furman explores touchpoints between his everyday suburban life and the environment in South Florida, contemplating his place in a subtropical landscape stretching from the Everglades to the warm Atlantic coast.
Transportive vignettes of encounters in the natural world blend with ordinary, all-too-relatable stories of home and family life in these chapters. ...
GHOSTS AND THEIR HOSTS: The Colonization of the Invisible World in Early America
By Sladja Blažan. University of Virginia Press, 2024.
Still dominant today, psychological readings of ghosts have obscured the precariousness of lives affected by colonial structures of the early republic. Ghosts and Their Hosts demonstrates that in the transcultural U.S. American context, ghostly figurations were able to express human entanglements with nonhuman environments, which are explored here for the first time. Not only a corrective to metaphysical accounts, a materialist reading of ghosts is crucial to understanding the colonial history and legacy of the ...
Floreana
By Midge Raymond. Little A, 2024.
“After ten years away to build a family, Mallory returns to Floreana Island in the Galápagos, and to Gavin, the mentor with whom she had a long-ago affair. Their project is to build nests to revive the vulnerable penguin population. But Mallory doesn’t dare tell Gavin why she’s really come back. Then she discovers old journals hidden in a lava cave―confessions of another woman who needed to disappear.
In 1929, Dore Strauch left the life she knew to create ...
Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis: The Industrial Revolution to the Present
By Tatiana Konrad. University of Nevada Press, 2024.
From the publisher’s website:
“Concentrating on a powerful, emerging genre, Tatiana Konrad’s Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis provides a survey of popular narratives that further our understanding of climate change in contemporary fiction. Konrad advocates for the expansion and redefinition of the cli-fi genre and argues that industrial fiction from the nineteenth century is the first example of climate change fiction. Tracing the ways through which cli-fi outlines a history of our modern ecocultural crisis, this ...
Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism
By Tatiana Konrad. Temple University Press, 2024.
From the publisher’s website:
“Drawing on contemporary and historic literary and media examples of Western colonialism and Anglophone writings, Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism traces how the perverse nature of colonialism continues to dominate the globe today.
The editor and contributors provide a careful analysis of the intersection of disability, the environment, and colonialism to understand issues such as eco-ableism, environmental degradation, homogenized approaches to environmentalism, and climate change. They also look at the body as a site of ...
Precarious Eating: Narrating Environmental Harm in the Global South
By Ben Stanley. University of Minnesota Press, 2024.
From GMOs to vegetarianism and veganism, questions of what we should (and shouldn’t) eat can be frequent sources of debate and disagreement. In Precarious Eating, Ben Jamieson Stanley asks how recentering global South representations of food might shift understandings of environmental precarity.
Precarious Eating follows the lead of writers and thinkers in South Africa and India who are tracing the production and consumption of food, exploring ways to reconnect our narratives about climate change, global capitalism, and ...
Imagining Air: Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility
By Tatiana Konrad. University of Exeter Press, 2023.
From the publisher’s website:
“Imagining Air tackles air as a cultural, medical, and environmental phenomenon. Its major aim is to explore air’s visibility and invisibility within the environment through the investigation of such phenomena as pollution and pandemics.
The book provides environmental and medical perspectives on air, in particular how it has historically been envisioned in U.S., Canadian and British cultural and literary narratives. The authors explore how these representations and the constructed meanings of air can help ...
Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures
By Sarah Dimick. Columbia University Press, 2024.
As climate change alters seasons around the globe, literature registers and responds to shifting environmental time. A writer and a fisher track the distribution of beach trash in Chennai, chronicling disruptions in seasonal winds and currents along the Bay of Bengal. An essayist in the northeastern United States observes that maple sap flows earlier now, prompting him to reflect on gender and seasons of transition. Poets affiliated with small island nations arrive in Paris for the United ...