Vulnerable Earth is a study of the literature of climate crisis. Building on the assumption that the crisis is planetary in scope even if differential and unequal in effects, it examines literary fiction, graphic novels, memoirs about toxic wastes and neo-slavery narratives, mostly from the contemporary decades, but touching upon select antecedents as well, and from all over the world. The study covers texts that fictionalize a 'hydrocrisis', those that are concerned with species extinction and experimental solutions such as rewilding, fiction and memoirs that are interested in exploring the conversations between and across species in multispecies encounters and, finally, texts that show the linkage between social justice and environmental justice. Focusing on aesthetics, narrative modes and constructions of damaged, wasted and at-risk worlds, this book shows how the literature of climate crisis foregrounds a feature that humans and nonhumans, the living and the non-living share, differentially, with the planet: vulnerability.

Shows how the literature of climate crisis foregrounds a feature that humans and nonhumans, share, differentially, with the planet: vulnerability.

About the Author
Pramod K. Nayar teaches at the University of Hyderabad, India, where he holds the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies. He is an elected Fellow of the English Association and the Royal Historical Society, and a recipient of the Visitor's Award for the Best Research in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences from the President of India. He is the author, most recently, of Nuclear Cultures (2023), The Raj (2023), Alzheimer's Disease Memoirs (2022), The Human Rights Graphic Novel (2021), Ecoprecarity (2019), Bhopal's Ecological Gothic (2017), Human Rights and Literature (2016) and other books.


Book Information
ISBN 9781009496919
Author Pramod K. Nayar
Format Hardback
Page Count 310
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 600g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm * 24mm