1st Edition
Death-Facing Ecology in Contemporary British and North American Environmental Crisis Fiction
Introduction: Thoughts Towards an Ecology of Death-Facing
- A Crisis of Environment, A crisis in Thought
- Death Denial, Death facing
- Impasse, Paradox
- Discursive Death, Material Death
Conclusion: Imageries of the Future
Biography
Louise Squire researches in contemporary literature and ecocriticism. She works at University of Portsmouth and is Assistant Editor for Ecozon@. Publications include (co-editor) Literature and Sustainability: Concept, Text and Culture, a chapter in Extending Ecocritcism, ed. by Peter Barry and William Welstead, and an article in The Oxford Literary Review.
"This book offers us all a challenge: can thinking about, and thinking with, death, help us to understand our reactions to environmental crisis? By drawing our attention to the ways literature has confronted and acknowledged death both as a reality and as a way of figuring our lives, Squire's study shows how the imagination of the end of us is not limited to hopeless and helpless spectacle of disaster."
– Dr. Jenny Bavidge, University of Cambridge
