Eco-Consciousness in American Culture

Imperatives in the Age of the Anthropocene
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-631-90519-7
Verlag: Peter Lang

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

The book explores the key concerns in the United States of America, as well as around the world today, related to the significance of ecology, eco-consciousness and climate change.

The chapters by individual authors reflect the topics both from a theoretical and from an ecocritical perspective. In the former case, they analyze effects of the present ecological crises (i.e. climate change and pandemics), the emergence and development of environmental humanities, posthumanism, ecocriticism, ecofeminism, and ecotheology. In the latter case, they offer readings of American literary texts of the 20th and 21st centuries as significant case studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vlad, Eduard

Ciugureanu, Adina

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ciugureanu, Adina

Vlad, Eduard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

the anthropocene, eco-systems, ecocritical readings, ecodefense, environmental awareness, posthumanism and transhumanism, solar- and cyberpunk, utopia and dystopia

Über Autor(innen)

Adina Ciugureanu is Professor Emerita of British and American Studies at Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania. Her research interests and publications focus on aspects related to British and American nineteenth- and twentieth century literature, Modernism, feminist studies, eco- and geo-criticism.

Eduard Vlad is Professor of American Studies at Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania. His interests and publications include issues of literary and cultural studies, with relevant aspects of identity theory in the globalization age.