LEADER 03928nam 22006375 450 001 9910826750303321 005 20230912151656.0 010 $a0-8232-8679-7 010 $a0-8232-8888-9 010 $a0-8232-8680-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823286805 035 $a(CKB)4940000000153604 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5990007 035 $a(DE-B1597)555089 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823286805 035 $a(OCoLC)1132430683 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5975090 035 $a(EXLCZ)994940000000153604 100 $a20200723h20192019 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Disposition of Nature $eEnvironmental Crisis and World Literature /$fJennifer Wenzel 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (352 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a0-8232-8678-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction. Reading for the planet --$tChapter 1. Consumption for the common good? commodity biography in an era of postconsumerism --$tChapter 2. Hijacking the imagination: how to tell the story of the Niger delta --$tChapter 3. From waste lands to wasted lives: enclosure as aesthetic regime and property regime --$tChapter 4. How far is bhopal? inconvenient forums and corporate comparison --$tEpilogue. Fixing the world --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aHow 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. The Disposition of Nature argues that assumptions about what nature is are at stake in conflicts over how it is inhabited or used. 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. 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. 606 $aEnvironmental degradation$zDeveloping countries 606 $aNature in literature 607 $aDeveloping countries$xEnvironmental conditions 610 $aAnthropocene. 610 $acorporation. 610 $aecocriticism. 610 $aenvironmental humanities. 610 $aenvironmental justice. 610 $aglobalization. 610 $aimperialism. 610 $anew materialism. 610 $apostcolonial. 610 $aworld literature. 615 0$aEnvironmental degradation 615 0$aNature in literature. 676 $a363.7009172/4 700 $aWenzel$b Jennifer$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01083132 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826750303321 996 $aThe Disposition of Nature$93942857 997 $aUNINA