Description: Further DetailsTitle: Writing Our ExtinctionCondition: NewSubtitle: Anthropocene Fiction and Vertical ScienceISBN-10: 1503633004EAN: 9781503633001ISBN: 9781503633001Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/11/2023Description: Mid-twentieth-century developments in science and technology produced new understandings and images of the planet that circulated the globe, giving rise to a modern ecological consciousness; but they also contributed to accelerating crises in the global environment, including climate change, pollution, and waste. In this new work, Patrick Whitmarsh analyzes postwar narrative fictions that describe, depict, or express the earth from above (the aerial) and below (the subterranean), revealing the ways that literature has engaged this history of vertical science and linked it to increasing environmental precarity, up to and including the extinction of humankind. Whitmarsh examines works by writers such as Don DeLillo, Karen Tei Yamashita, Reza Negarestani, and Colson Whitehead alongside postwar scientific programs including the Space Race, atmospheric and underground nuclear testing, and geological expeditions such as Project Mohole (which attempted to drill to the earth's mantle). As Whitmarsh argues, by focusing readers' attention on the fragility of postwar life through a vertical lens, Anthropocene fiction highlights the interconnections between human behavior and planetary change. These fictions situate industrial history within the much longer narrative of geological time and reframe scientific progress as a story through which humankind writes itself out of existence.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Patrick WhitmarshGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Post*45Release Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Writing Our Extinction
Title: Writing Our Extinction
Subtitle: Anthropocene Fiction and Vertical Science
ISBN-10: 1503633004
EAN: 9781503633001
ISBN: 9781503633001
Release Date: 04/11/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 228 Pages
Publication Name: Writing Our Extinction : Anthropocene Fiction and Vertical Science
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: American / General, Semiotics & Theory, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 0.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Author: Patrick Whitmarsh
Series: Post*45 Ser.
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Format: Hardcover
