Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene

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Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene

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Author: Ina Batzke

Type: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9783030779757

Date: 15th December, 2022

Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

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  2. History and Criticism
  3. Literary Theory

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Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene is a timely collection of insightful contributions that negotiate how the genre of life writing, traditionally tied to the human perspective and thus anthropocentric qua definition, can provide adequate perspectives for an age of ecological disasters and global climate change. The volume's eight chapters illustrate the aptness of life writing and life writing studies to critically reevaluate the role of "the human" vis-à-vis non-human others while remaining mindful of persisting inequalities between humans regarding who causes and who suffers damage in the Anthropocene age. The authors in this collection not only expand the toolbox of life writing studies by engaging with critical insights from the fields of posthumanism and ecocriticism, but, in turn, also enrich those fields by offering unique approaches to contemplate the responsibility of humans for as well as their relational existence in the posthuman Anthropocene.

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