{"product_id":"the-disposition-of-nature-environmental-crisis-and-world-literature-hardback-9780823286782","title":"The Disposition of Nature; Environmental Crisis and World Literature (Hardback) 9780823286782","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Disposition of Nature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEnvironmental Crisis and World Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJennifer Wenzel (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823286782\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 December 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e352 pages, 8\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.658 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist, 2022 Ecocriticism Book Prize, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted, 2020 Book Prize, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How do literature and other cultural forms shape how we imagine the planet, for better or worse? In this rich, original, and long awaited book, Jennifer Wenzel tackles the formal innovations, rhetorical appeals, and sociological imbrications of world literature that might help us confront unevenly distributed environmental crises, including global warming.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Disposition of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e argues that assumptions about \u003ci\u003ewhat nature is\u003c\/i\u003e are at stake in conflicts over \u003ci\u003ehow it is inhabited or used\u003c\/i\u003e. Both environmental discourse and world literature scholarship tend to confuse parts and wholes. Working with writing and film from Africa, South Asia, and beyond, Wenzel takes a contrapuntal approach to sites and subjects dispersed across space and time. Reading for the planet, Wenzel shows, means reading from near to there: across experiential divides, between specific sites, at more than one scale.\u003cbr\u003e Impressive in its disciplinary breadth, Wenzel's book fuses insights from political ecology, geography, anthropology, history, and law, while drawing on active debates between postcolonial theory and world literature, as well as scholarship on the Anthropocene and the material turn. In doing so, the book shows the importance of the literary to environmental thought and practice, elaborating how a supple understanding of cultural imagination and narrative logics can foster more robust accounts of global inequality and energize movements for justice and livable futures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Reading for the Planet   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I: Citizens and Consumers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1. \u003c\/b\u003eConsumption for the Common Good? Commodity\u003cbr\u003e Biography in an Era of Postconsumerism   49\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e Hijacking the Imagination: How to Tell the Story\u003cbr\u003e of the Niger Delta   81\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II: Resource Logics and Risk Logics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3. \u003c\/b\u003eFrom Waste Lands to Wasted Lives: Enclosure\u003cbr\u003e as Aesthetic Regime and Property Regime   141\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4. \u003c\/b\u003eHow Far Is Bhopal? Inconvenient\u003cbr\u003e Forums and Corporate Comparison   195\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/b\u003e: Fixing the World   259\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e   265\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   267\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e   303\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e   327\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580357144856,"sku":"9780823286782","price":78.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-disposition-of-nature-environmental-crisis-and-world-literature-hardback-9780823286782","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}