Blue Extinction in Literature, Art, and Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-69912-2
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 227 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 316 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature

examines literary and cultural representations of aquatic biodiversity loss, bringing together critical perspectives from the blue humanities and extinction studies. It demonstrates the affordances, as well as the limitations, of literary and artistic forms in exposing the plight of aquatic organisms, drawing attention to the social, political, and economic structures that are contributing to their destruction. Together, the essays in this collection demonstrate how literature and art can challenge dominant cultural conceptions and lingering misconceptions surrounding aquatic biodiversity loss, offering new ways of relating to species ranging from whales to oysters.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fibisan, Vera

Murray, Rachel

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Biodiversität
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Bioethik, Tierethik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.-Blue Extinction’.-‘Amitav Ghosh’s Dolphins: Extinction, Figuration and Redemption in The Hungry Tide and Gun Island’ .-‘The Prospects of Criticism in the Brave New Ocean.- Jackson, Verne, and Toussenel.-‘Narwhals for all Seasons.- Representation, Evasion and Absence’.-‘“We Will All Be Marine Mammals Soon”: Oceanic Intimacy and Extinction from Shakespeare to the Left-to-Die Boat’.-  ‘Held Together.- Learning Attachment from Oysters’ .-‘Surreal Seas and Embodied Encounters.- Elizabeth Bishop’s Darwinian Poetics’ .-‘Hydromaterialism and Membrane Logic in Elizabeth-Jane Burnett’s Of Sea’.-‘A Story of Eight Limbs’.-‘Spectral Species in the (Political) Abyss.- From Living Fossils to Presumed Extinctions’.-‘Alien Rhythms: Sounding Black Futures from the Ocean Floor’.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Vera Fibisan is an Honorary Researcher at University of Sheffield, UK. She is a practice-based researcher and writer, focusing on bodies of water and marginalia. She has published poetry notably in   (Smith/Doorstop, 2012),   (Smith/Doorstop, 2014), the   (Boiler House Press, 2018) and   (2020). She is ASLE-UKI Website and Social Media Officer, and Podcast Co-host of  .

Rachel Murray is Lecturer in Literature and the Environment at University of Bristol, UK. She specializes in twentieth-century literature, animal studies, and the environment. She is the author of T (2020) and is the editor (with Caroline Hovanec) of “Reading Modernism in the Sixth Extinction” for . She has published articles in the , , and the , among other venues. She is currently writing a book about marine life in modern and contemporary poetry, provisionally entitled .