1st Edition
Myth and Environmentalism Arts of Resilience for a Damaged Planet
Introduction: Myth and Environmentalism: Entanglements, Synergies, Openings
Esther Sánchez-Pardo
PART I: Myth, disaster and present-day views on ecological damage
1. The afterlife of Chornobyl: apocalyptic mythology and environmentalism in the Exclusion Zone
Haley Laurila
2. Myths of wilderness and motherhood in postapocalyptic narratives of the Anthropocene
Hope Jennings and Christine Junker
PART II: Indigenous and Afro-diasporic myths and ecological knowledge
3. Boundless water, boundless ice–Arctic cosmological concepts in times of melting horizons
Sonja Ross
4. Revisiting the wild: mythology and ecological wisdom in shalan joudry’s Waking Ground
Leonor María Martínez Serrano
5. Myth, Afrodiasporic spirituality, and the oceanic archive in independent comics
Paul Humphrey
PART III: Artistic practices, myth and environmental resilience
6. "Giant by Thine Own Nature": Jean-Baptiste Débret and Antônio Parreiras’ mythic Brazilian land(scape)s through a transatlantic gaze
Esther Lezra and Esther Sánchez-Pardo
7. New cosmogonies of waste negotiated in the art of Mohamed Larbi Rahhali
María Porras Sánchez and Lhoussain Simour
8. Death is life is death is life: continual regeneration in myth and the art of Maki Ohkojima
Keijiro Suga
9. Coda: a radical evocation of seed
Jeanette Hart-Mann
Biography
Esther Sánchez-Pardo is Professor of English at Complutense University, Madrid, Spain.
María Porras Sánchez is an Assistant Professor at Complutense University, Madrid, Spain, and a literary translator.
