New Forms of Environmental Writing
Gleaning and Fragmentation
New Forms of Environmental Writing
Gleaning and Fragmentation
Description
Surveying a wide range of contemporary poetry, fiction, and memoir by women writers, this book explores our most pressing environmental concerns and shows how these texts find innovative new ways to respond to our environmental crisis.
Arguing for the centrality of individual encounter and fragmentary form in 21st-century literature, as well as themes of attention, care, and loss, Baker highlights the ways that fragmentary texts can be seen as a mode of resistance. These texts provide new ways to consider the role of individual agency and enmeshment in a more-than-human world.
The author proposes a new model of 'gleaning' to encompass ideas of collection, assemblage, and relinquishment and draws on theoretical perspectives such as ecofeminism, new materialism and posthumanism. Examining works by writers including Sara Baume, Ali Smith, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Bhanu Kapil and Kathleen Jamie, Baker provides important new insights into understanding our planetary predicament.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Gleaning, Storytelling, and Constellations: The Uses of Fragmentation
Chapter 1: 'Edgeless, Sparking, Alone': Solitude and Attention
Chapter 2: 'How It Had All Connected': Assemblage, Classification, and Performance
Chapter 3: Archives of Care: Mourning, Echoes, and the Reader as Gleaner
Conclusion: 'Particle sings to particle': Gleaning the Present
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Product details
| Published | May 19 2022 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350271333 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Series | Environmental Cultures |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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