... 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...

... is to discover in domestic economy a way of thinking about nature as something in which we live and, equally important, that lives in us. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Catharine E. Beecher home economics human ecology environmentalism ecofeminism...

... 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...

... to separate Kennedy’s political work from his literary work, this study tries to fully integrate the two sides. Civilizing Thoreau: Human Ecology and the Emerging Social Sciences in the Major Works . By Richard J. Schneider. Rochester, NY: Camden House. 2016. 212 pp. $90.00. By exploring Henry...

..., 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...

... when social justice groups would shudder at the use of these same technologies on human populations. Blockchain Chicken Farm should prompt us to ask how those in rural environments are adapting AI technologies for their own uses at the same time as those same technologies are reshaping ecological...

... 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...

..., this collection brings together essays that engage themes of cultural and human ecology in readings by a variety of authors, including Walt Whitman, James Fenimore Cooper, Mary Hallock Foote, Adrienne Rich, Charles...

..., 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...

... of, alternatives to, and lines of flight away from its more pessimistic ideological formations. [email protected] Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Octavia E. Butler Margaret Atwood Ernest Callenbach Kim Stanley Robinson ecological humanities It is still an open...

... 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 Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 The Ecology of Modernism: American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics . By Schuster Joshua . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2015 . xv, 216 pp. Paper , $39.95 ; e-book, $39.95 . Fallen Forests: Emotion...

... and extractive conceptions of environment, geology, and the human. Thus, Gumbs renders the ongoing ecologies of the Middle Passage through intimate and reciprocal relations of breath and touch, and Jemisin instantiates an insurgent, anticolonial sensorium attuned—through sensuous “temperatures, pressures...

... 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...

...) matter exemplify, for Morton and others, the queer potential of the nonhuman turn in its quest for intimacy with the world beyond the human. Morton (2010, 84) understands matter itself as a “sprawling, tangled, queer mesh” and insists therefore that any ecologi- cal reckoning with matter...

..., 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...