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Haunted nature : entanglements of the human and the nonhuman / Sladja Blazan, editor.

3030818691 (electronic book)
9783030818692 (electronic bk.)
9783030818685

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

©2021

English

1 online resource (xiii, 199 pages : color illustrations)

10.1007/978-3-030-81869-2 doi

PS374.H67 H38 2021eb

813/.0873809

This volume is a study of uneven human entanglements with Nature as seen through the mode of haunting. As an interruption of the present by the past, haunting can express contemporary anxieties concerning our involvement in the transformation of natural environments and their ecosystems, and our complicity in their collapse. It can also express a much-needed sense of continuity and relationality. The complexity of the questionwho and what gets to be called human with respect to the nonhumanis reflected in these collected chapters, which, in their analysis of cinematic and literary representations of sentient Nature within the traditional gothic trope of haunting, bring together history, race, postcolonialism, and feminism with ecocriticism and media studies. Given the growing demand for narratives expressing our troubled relationship with Nature, it is imperative to analyze this contested ground. Sladja Blazan is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Wurzburg, Germany. Her areas of research include speculative fiction, critical posthumanism, critical refugee studies, and migration as a literary topic.

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