Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman: Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of human-nonhuman relations can point to new, more sustainable ways forward. Bringing insights from the field of literary animal studies, a diverse and international group of scholars examine literary contributions to the ecological framing of human-nonhuman relationships. Collectively, the contributors to this edited collection contemplate the role of literature in the setting of environmental agendas and in determining humanity's path forward in the company of nonhuman others.

About the Author

Matthias Stephan is lecturer at Aarhus University, coordinator at the Centre for Studies in Otherness, author of Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century, and editor of Otherness: Essays and Studies.

Sune Borkfelt is lecturer at Aarhus University and author of Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity.

Reviews

"Ranging from the nineteenth century to contemporary climate change fiction and embracing a variety of literary genres and geographical contexts, the essays in this collection offer a wide gamut of perspectives on how literature may probe nonhuman ways of being in the world and question anthropocentric assumptions. The collection positions debates on literature and climate change within a longer history of Western thinking on the nonhuman-a provocative and valuable move in today's scholarly landscape. Engaging with themes including animal experience, nuclear anxieties, and environmental activism, the authors convincingly show that literature is no mere illustration of posthumanist ideas but that its very form can perform philosophical tensions and positions in transformative ways."

-- Marco Caracciolo, Ghent University



Book Information
ISBN 9781666903768
Author Matthias Stephan
Format Hardback
Page Count 284
Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Publisher Lexington Books
Weight(grams) 612g
Dimensions(mm) 227mm * 160mm * 27mm