1st Edition
Life Writing in the Anthropocene
Introduction
Life: Writing and Rights in the Anthropocene
Jessica White and Gillian Whitlock
The Process
1. From the Miniature to the Momentous: Writing Lives through Ecobiography
Jessica White
2. Period Rhetoric, Countersignature, and the Australian Novel
Thomas Bristow
3. Writing Toward and With: Ethological Poetics and Nonhuman Lives
Stuart Cooke
4. Becoming D | other: Life as a Transmuting Device
Astrid Joutseno
Essays
5. Writing the Lives of Plants: Phytography and the Botanical Imagination
John Charles Ryan
6. "If a Tree Falls …" : Posthuman Testimony in C. D. Wright’s Casting Deep Shade,
Eamonn Connor
7. Writing the Lives of Fungi at the End of the World
Alexis Harley
8. Planetary Delta: Anthropocene Lives in the Blues Memoir
Parker Krieg
9. Memoir and the End of the Natural World
Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
10. "As Closely Bonded as We are:" Animalographies, Kinship, and Conflict in Ceridwen Dovey’s Only the Animals and Eva Hornung’s Dog Boy
Grace Moore
Forum: Writing the Lives of Other-than-Humans
11. "Desperation for Life": Writing Death in the Anthropocene
Jessica White and Gillian Whitlock
Forums
12. Writing the Cow: Poetry, Activism, and the Texts of Meat
Jessica Holmes
13. Sheep: Voice | Complicity | Precedent
Barbara Holloway
14. A Triumphal Entry, a Stifled Cry, a Hushed Retreat
Rick De Vos
What’s Next?
15. Her Biography: Deborah Bird Rose
Stephen Muecke
Artist’s Statement
16. Artist’s Statement
Anna Laurent
Biography
Jessica White is based at The University of Queensland, Australia. Her memoir about deafness, Hearing Maud, won the 2020 Michael Crouch Award for a debut work of biography. She is currently writing an ecobiography of nineteenth-century botanist Georgiana Molloy.
Gillian Whitlock is Emeritus Professor in Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland, Australia. She is currently writing Inhumanities: Refugee Lives in the Archives, a life narrative of asylum seekers in detention at the Nauru camp, and the testimony of the things they left behind.
