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Author:   Kyle Bladow ,  Jennifer Ladino
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
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9781496206794

ISBN 10:   1496206797
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   01 November 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Kyle Bladow and Jennifer Ladino, Toward an Affective Ecocriticism: Placing Feeling in the Anthropocene Theoretical Foundations Nicole Merola, “`what do we do but keep breathing as best we can this / minute atmosphere’: Juliana Spahr and Anthropocene Anxiety” Alexa Weik von Mossner, “From Nostalgic Longing to Solastalgic Distress: A Cognitive Approach to Love in the Anthropocene” Neil Campbell, “A New Gentleness: Affective Ficto-regionality” Affective Attachments: Land, Bodies, Justice Jobb Arnold, “Feeling the Fires of Climate Change: Land Affect in Canada’s Tar Sands” William Major, “Wendell Berry and the Affective Turn” Tom Hertweck, “A Hunger for Words: Food Affects and Embodied Ideology” Ryan Hediger, “Uncanny Homesickness and War: Loss of Affect, Loss of Place, and Reworlding in Redeployment” Animality: Feeling Species and Boundaries Robert Azzarello, “Desiring Species with Darwin and Freud” Brian Deyo, “Tragedy, Ecophobia, and Animality in the Anthropocene” Allyse Knox-Russell, “Futurity without Optimism: Detaching from Anthropocentrism and Grieving Our Fathers in Beasts of the Southern Wild” Environmentalist Killjoys: Politics and Pedagogy Nicole Seymour, “The Queerness of Environmental Affect” Lisa Ottum, “Feeling Let Down: Affect, Environmentalism, and the Power of Negative Thinking” Graig Uhlin, “Feeling Depleted: Ecocinema and the Atmospherics of Affect” Sarah Jaquette Ray, “Feeling Fine at the End of the World: The Affect Arc of Undergraduate Environmental Studies Curricula

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“Affective Ecocriticism cements the importance of affect—and not only data or narrative—to understanding current environmental crises and relations. It also posits how affect bears on acting on these crises (or not) and pivoting our relations. That is, the essays here aren’t merely descriptive or diagnostic; they also look to possibilities for response.”—Heather Houser, associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect “Affect theory and ecocriticism are both already vibrant fields of inquiry, but Affective Ecocriticism makes a strong case for their inherent compatibility. This field-defining book demonstrates the deeper ground that both of these approaches might find were they to understand the basic fact of their shared concerns, methods, and aims.”—Rachel Greenwald Smith, associate professor of English at Saint Louis University and author of Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism

Affect theory and ecocriticism are both already vibrant fields of inquiry, but Affective Ecocriticism makes a strong case for their inherent compatibility. This field-defining book demonstrates the deeper ground that both of these approaches might find were they to understand the basic fact of their shared concerns, methods, and aims. -Rachel Greenwald Smith, associate professor of English at Saint Louis University and author of Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism -- Rachel Greenwald Smith Affective Ecocriticism cements the importance of affect-and not only data or narrative-to understanding current environmental crises and relations. It also posits how affect bears on acting on these crises (or not) and pivoting our relations. That is, the essays here aren't merely descriptive or diagnostic; they also look to possibilities for response. -Heather Houser, associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect -- Heather Houser

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Kyle Bladow is an assistant professor of Native American studies at Northland College. Jennifer Ladino is an associate professor of English at the University of Idaho. She is the author of Reclaiming Nostalgia: Longing for Nature in American Literature.  

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