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Author:   Esther Sánchez-Pardo ,  María Porras Sánchez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032391359

ISBN 10:   1032391359
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   05 July 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: myth and environmentalism: entanglements, synergies, openings PART I: Myth, disaster and present-day views on ecological damage 1. The afterlife of Chornobyl: apocalyptic mythology and environmentalism in the Exclusion Zone 2. Myths of wilderness and motherhood in postapocalyptic narratives of the Anthropocene PART II: Indigenous and Afro-diasporic myths and ecological knowledge 3. Boundless water, boundless ice–Arctic cosmological concepts in times of melting horizons 4. Revisiting the wild: mythology and ecological wisdom in shalan joudry’s Waking Ground 5. Myth, Afrodiasporic spirituality, and the oceanic archive in independent comics PART III: Artistic practices, myth and environmental resilience 6. ""Giant by Thine Own Nature"": Jean-Baptiste Débret and Antônio Parreiras’ mythic Brazilian land(scape)s through a transatlantic gaze 7. New cosmogonies of waste negotiated in the art of Mohamed Larbi Rahhali 8. Death is life is death is life: continual regeneration in myth and the art of Maki Ohkojima 9. Coda: a radical evocation of seed"

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Esther Sánchez-Pardo is Professor of English at Complutense University, Madrid, Spain. María Porras Sánchez is an Assistant Professor at Complutense University, Madrid, Spain, and a literary translator.

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