Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction : : Environment and Affect / / Heather Houser.
The 1970s brought a new understanding of the biological and intellectual impact of environmental crises on human beings. As efforts to prevent ecological and bodily injury aligned, a new literature of sickness emerged. "Ecosickness fiction" imaginatively rethinks the link between these for...
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