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Weak Planet

- Literature and Assisted Survival
Af: Wai Chee Dimock Engelsk Paperback

Weak Planet

- Literature and Assisted Survival
Af: Wai Chee Dimock Engelsk Paperback
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Vulnerability. We see it everywhere. In once permanent institutions. In runaway pandemics. In democracy itself. And most frighteningly, in ecosystems with no sustainable future. Against these large-scale hazards of climate change, what can literature teach us? This is the question Wai Chee Dimock asks in Weak Planet, proposing a way forward, inspired by works that survive through kinship with strangers and with the nonhuman world. Drawing on Native American studies, disability studies, and environmental humanities, Dimock shows how hope can be found not in heroic statements but in incremental and unspectacular teamwork. Reversing the usual focus on hegemonic institutions, she highlights instead incomplete gestures given an afterlife with the help of others.  She looks at Louise Erdrich’s and Sherman Alexie’s user-amended captivity narratives; nontragic sequels to Moby-Dick by C. L. R. James, Frank Stella, and Amitav Ghosh; induced forms of Irishness in Henry James, Colm Tóibín, W. B. Yeats, and Gish Jen; and the experimentations afforded by a blurry Islam in works by Henri Matisse, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and Langston Hughes.  Celebrating literature’s durability as an assisted outcome, Weak Planet gives us new ways to think about our collective future.
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Vulnerability. We see it everywhere. In once permanent institutions. In runaway pandemics. In democracy itself. And most frighteningly, in ecosystems with no sustainable future. Against these large-scale hazards of climate change, what can literature teach us? This is the question Wai Chee Dimock asks in Weak Planet, proposing a way forward, inspired by works that survive through kinship with strangers and with the nonhuman world. Drawing on Native American studies, disability studies, and environmental humanities, Dimock shows how hope can be found not in heroic statements but in incremental and unspectacular teamwork. Reversing the usual focus on hegemonic institutions, she highlights instead incomplete gestures given an afterlife with the help of others.  She looks at Louise Erdrich’s and Sherman Alexie’s user-amended captivity narratives; nontragic sequels to Moby-Dick by C. L. R. James, Frank Stella, and Amitav Ghosh; induced forms of Irishness in Henry James, Colm Tóibín, W. B. Yeats, and Gish Jen; and the experimentations afforded by a blurry Islam in works by Henri Matisse, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and Langston Hughes.  Celebrating literature’s durability as an assisted outcome, Weak Planet gives us new ways to think about our collective future.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 224
ISBN-13: 9780226477107
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 022647710X
Kategori: Litteraturstudier: generelt
Udg. Dato: 20 okt 2020
Længde: 16mm
Bredde: 216mm
Højde: 139mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 20 okt 2020
Forfatter(e): Wai Chee Dimock
Forfatter(e) Wai Chee Dimock

Kategori Litteraturstudier: generelt

ISBN-13 9780226477107

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 224

Udgave

Længde 16mm

Bredde 216mm

Højde 139mm

Udg. Dato 20 okt 2020

Oplagsdato 20 okt 2020

Forlag The University of Chicago Press