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    Affective Ecocriticism
    Emotion, Embodiment, Environment

    Kyle Bladow (Edited by), Jennifer Ladino (Edited by)

    9781496206794

    Hardback, published 1 November 2018

    360 pages, 9 photographs, index
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.666 kg

    “Affective Ecocriticism cements the importance of affect – and not only data or narrative – to understanding current environmental crises and relations. It also posits how affect bears on acting on these crises (or not) and pivoting our relations. That is, the essays here aren’t merely descriptive or diagnostic; they also look to possibilities for response.”-Heather Houser, associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect
    “Affect theory and ecocriticism are both already vibrant fields of inquiry, but Affective Ecocriticism makes a strong case for their inherent compatibility. This field-defining book demonstrates the deeper ground that both of these approaches might find were they to understand the basic fact of their shared concerns, methods, and aims.”-Rachel Greenwald Smith, associate professor of English at Saint Louis University and author of Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism

    Scholars of ecocriticism have long tried to articulate emotional relationships to environments. Only recently, however, have they begun to draw on the complex interdisciplinary body of research known as affect theory. Affective Ecocriticism takes as its premise that ecocritical scholarship has much to gain from the rich work on affect and emotion happening within social and cultural theory, geography, psychology, philosophy, queer theory, feminist theory, narratology, and neuroscience, among others. This vibrant and important volume imagines a more affective-and consequently more effective-ecocriticism, as well as a more environmentally attuned affect studies.

    These interdisciplinary essays model a range of approaches to emotion and affect in considering a variety of primary texts, including short story collections, films, poetry, curricular programs, and contentious geopolitical locales such as Canada’s Tar Sands. Several chapters deal skeptically with familiar environmentalist affects like love, hope, resilience, and optimism; others consider what are often understood as negative emotions, such as anxiety, disappointment, and homesickness-all with an eye toward reinvigorating or reconsidering their utility for the environmental humanities and environmentalism. Affective Ecocriticism offers an accessible approach to this theoretical intersection that will speak to readers across multiple disciplinary and geographic locations.
     

    List of Illustrations
    Acknowledgments
    Toward an Affective Ecocriticism: Placing Feeling in the Anthropocene
    Kyle Bladow and Jennifer Ladino

    Part 1. Theoretical Foundations
    1. “
    what do we do but keep breathing as best we can this / minute atmosphere”
    : Juliana Spahr and Anthropocene Anxiety
    Nicole M. Merola
    2. From Nostalgic Longing to Solastalgic Distress: A Cognitive Approach to Love in the Anthropocene
    Alexa Weik von Mossner
    3. A New Gentleness: Affective Ficto-Regionality
    Neil Campbell

    Part 2. Affective Attachments: Land, Bodies, Justice
    4. Feeling the Fires of Climate Change: Land Affect in Canada’
    s Tar Sands
    Jobb Arnold
    5. Wendell Berry and the Affective Turn
    William Major
    6. A Hunger for Words: Food Affects and Embodied Ideology
    Tom Hertweck
    7. Uncanny Homesickness and War: Loss of Affect, Loss of Place, and Reworlding in Redeployment
    Ryan Hediger

    Part 3. Animality: Feeling Species and Boundaries
    8. Desiring Species with Darwin and Freud
    Robert Azzarello
    9. Tragedy, Ecophobia, and Animality in the Anthropocene
    Brian Deyo
    10. Futurity without Optimism: Detaching from Anthropocentrism and Grieving Our Fathers in Beasts of the Southern Wild
    Allyse Knox-Russell

    Part 4. Environmentalist Killjoys: Politics and Pedagogy
    11. The Queerness of Environmental Affect
    Nicole Seymour
    12. Feeling Let Down: Affect, Environmentalism, and the Power of Negative Thinking
    Lisa Ottum
    13. Feeling Depleted: Ecocinema and the Atmospherics of Affect
    Graig Uhlin
    14. Coming of Age at the End of the World: The Affective Arc of Undergraduate Environmental Studies Curricula
    Sarah Jaquette Ray
    List of Contributors
    Index

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