Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction : : Environment and Affect /

Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction : : Environment and Affect / / Heather Houser.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Houser, Heather,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Literature Now
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 5 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Ecosickness
  • 2. AIDS Memoirs out of the City: Discordant Natures
  • 3. Richard Powers's Strange Wonder
  • 4. Infinite Jest's environmental Case for Disgust
  • 5. The Anxiety of Intervention in Leslie Marmon Silko and Marge Piercy
  • Conclusion: How Does It Feel?
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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