... for anticolonial and abolitionist ecological thought. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 sensory studies environmental humanities African American literature speculative fiction There’s an air of the broken world—and revolutionary geology predicts...

... beyond the solar system, as so commonly depicted in 1950s and 1960s science fiction, has become almost unthinkable in the years since the ecological turn of the 1970s; as Kim Stanley Robinson ( 2012 : 328) writes in his recent 2312 : “Sorry, but it’s true . . . the stars exist beyond human time, beyond...

... Ecology  835 cated. By highlighting that which is absent from touchless space (af- fect, emotion, responsibility, obligation, warmth, physical touch, the body), these scenes register DeLillo’s anxieties about the ways digiti- zation positions as obsolete elements of human exchange that should...

... that, with personality cleansed, humans might form mutually salutary relations with their environments. This scene shows that sensation revived through aestheticized environmental wonder fosters ecological engagement as Karin’s commitment to protecting her native ecosystem solidifies. Shklovsky’s...

..., is that in both body and (embodied) mind, we are fundamentally open to our no longer external envi- ronments; indeed, we always have been, which means that “we”— Poe and Posthuman Ecology 359 bounded, autonomous human subjects—have never been.21 Thus can...

... their intimacies: the application of AI to the management of wildlife and animal husbandry, the connections between AI and global food systems, the ways that AI draws on elements of the natural world for algorithmic models—a reminder to readers to look for ecological relation in all human relationships...

... contends, “presented a new set of formal and social problems to the people who considered it their business to write about urbanism,” and many confronted these aes- thetic and human problems through ecological paradigms.8 Commu- nity ecology became particularly useful to city observers who chal...

..., the violence is revealed to be a specific predation, “white in the darkness, like a knife under dark skin.” The threat here is against racialized Black bodies, and it compromises the perfection of the womb ecology and foreshadows dangers to come. When Michael thinks through the implication that humans, too...

... of the Americas made highly visible the preexisting—and soon to be disturbed—epistemologies, ecologies, and practices of “human-nonhuman entanglement” in both hemispheres (5). To access this “entanglement”—given various names by the theorists Ziser engages with (Gilles Deleuze, Jane Ben- nett, Bruno Latour...

... never be a real, political opposition Anna Brickhouse, University of Colorado, Boulder Visions of the Land: Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology. By Michael A. Bryson. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2002. xvii, 228 pp...

... . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2015 . vii, 260 pp. Cloth , $65.00 ; paper, $29.50 ; e-book, $29.50 . Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts . By Zapf Hubert . London : Bloomsbury . 2016 . ix, 301 pp. Cloth , $114.00 ; e-book, $28.99 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke...

... the fiction of a lesbian who sometimes enjoyed reading around in ‘‘the male homo- 6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 196 of 232 sexual literary tradition Melissa Solomon, Duke University Notations of the Wild: Ecology in the Poetry...

...Margaret Konkol Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women’s Environmental Writing, 1781–1924 . By Kilcup Karen L. . Athens : Univ. of Georgia Press . 2013 . xv, 504 pp. Cloth , $75.95 ; Paper, $32.95 ; e-book, $26.95 . The Ecology of Modernism...

... volatility, tactile communication, and psychotropic substances that pressure the bounds of human subjectivity at scales both personal and planetary, historical and ecological. Crucially, the sensory experiences described in this special issue advance posthumanist perspectives while also resisting them...

... of an underlying crisis of human sympathy (evidenced in broken families, divided communi- ties, and alienation from nature), I seek to show how Douglass frames ecological decline through the economic and ecological logics then cir- culating as alternative forms of antislavery environmental imaginary...

... movement that might employ science fiction to “actualize” a more ethical relationship between humans and non- human nature and reverse ongoing degradation of ecological systems (21). He does not connect his notion of transformation to other ecocritical discus- sions of the transformative politics...

... . Morton Timothy . 2010 . “ Queer Ecology .” PMLA 125 , no. 2 : 273 – 82 . ———. 2013 . Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality . Minneapolis, MN : Open Humanities Press . Nyong’o Tavia . 2012 . “ ‘Back to the Garden’: Queer Ecology in Samuel Delany’s Heavenly Breakfast...

..., comforting. The ecologi- cal metaphor allows the event to be placed within a cycle of birth and death, generation and extinction, that touches human beings and fish alike. Yet on the other hand, there is a disturbing aestheticization of violence at work in the image that relies on its detachment...

... their resilient subsistence ecologies. By celebrating colonial land grants, they opened alternatives to capitalist environments. As it analyzes Otero-Warren, Cabeza de Baca, and the Aliancistas, this article models a method for reading “imagined environments”—the frameworks through which humans explore spaces...

... ecological crisis: an insistence on retaining historical and experiential detail and a refusal to lose sight of the pleasures and possibilities that socially and environmentally vulnerable communities continue to create, even in catastrophic circumstances. Like Claborn’s and Posmentier’s texts, Alexa...