The Anthropocene: Approaches and Contexts for Literature and the Humanities

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
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Contributors
Introduction: The Anthropocene and the Humanities
	The Anthropocene: Definitions, Dating, and Debates
	How to Use This Book
	Notes
	References
Part 1 Approaches
	1 The Deep Time Life Kit: Thinking Tools for the Anthropocene
		Mantra 1: Nature Is Resilient, Surprising, and Not Attached to “Nature”
		Mantra 2: Hippies Rejoice: It’s All Connected (For Better—and for Worse)
		Mantra 3: Climate Change Is Everything Else Change
		Mantra 4: It’s Too Late to Save the Planet, But Also Too Early Not To
		Mantra 5: The World Isn’t Going to End (And Also: Your Kids Will Be There When It Doesn’t)
		Notes
		References
	2 The Two Households: Economics and Ecology
		Notes
		References
	3 Energy and the Anthropocene
		The Energy Humanities
		Early Modern Period
		Industrialization
		Postmodern Period
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	4 Environmental Racism, Environmental Justice: Centering Indigenous Responses to the Colonial Logics of the Anthropocene
		Notes
		References
	5 The World Is Burning: Racialized Regimes of Eco-Terror and the Anthropocene as Eurocene
		Introduction
		Anthropocene, Eurocene as Race War
			The Columbian Exchange (1610)
			The Industrial Revolution (1784)
			The Great Acceleration (1945)
		The Antagonism of the Anthropocene
		Conclusion: The World Is Burning
		Notes
		References
	6 Trans*plantationocene
		Works in the Name
		Fungible Fugitivity
		Tangerine Trans*Plantationocene
		Notes
		References
	7 The Anthropocene and Critical Method
		Notes
		References
Part 2 Contexts
	8 “One Life” and One Death: Mary Shelley’s The Last Man
		One Life/One Death
		These Sibylline Leaves
		Our Viruses/Ourselves
		Notes
		References
	9 Henry David Thoreau: A New Anthropocenic Persona
		Notes
		References
	10 It’s the End of the World: Can We Know It?
		Notes
		References
	11 Orlando in the Anthropocene: Climate Change and Changing Times
		Notes
		References
	12 Corporeal Matters: J.P. Clark’s The Wives’ Revolt and the Embodied Politics of the Anthropocene
		Notes
		References
	13 What Global South Critics Do
		Notes
		References
	14 Queering the Modest Witness in the Chthulucene: Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne (A New Weird Case Study)
		Notes
		References
	15 Contemporary Cli-Fi as Anthropocene Literature: Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140
		Kim Stanley Robinson: Hero of the Environment
		Anthropocene, Capitalocene, and New York 2140
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Index