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Vorheriges Semester
Environmental Writing, Racial Ecologies, Climate Change
DozentIn: Kathleen Samson, M.A.
Veranstaltungstyp: Seminar
Ort: 11/115
Zeiten: Di. 14:00 - 16:00 (wöchentlich)
Beschreibung: In this course, we explore different facets of what writing about the environment can entail, specifically thinking about how literature takes shape in the context of an increasingly present climate catastrophe, and in the wake of colonial extractivism. We consider the entanglement of racial capitalism and imperialism in producing climate crisis, while also separating and subjugating the natural world from the 'human world'. We then turn to question what a literature that seeks to destabilize boundaries between human and non-human might look like.
In this course, we will read a lot, so please come prepared to read and engage! We will explore various texts, which will including novels and theory as well as excerpts of other literary forms.
The primary texts are listed below. Please purchase a copy of 1, 2, and 3. Please read in advance.
1. The Great Derangement - Amitav Ghosh (ISBN 978-0-226-52681-2)
2. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams - Richard Flanagan (ISBN 978-1-473-58560-7)
3. Oil on Water - Helon Habila (ISBN- 978-0-141-04685-3)
and
4. Excerpts, which I will provide, from Emergency - Daisy Hildyard (ISBN 978-1-913097-81-3)
Non-fiction and theoretical texts, which I will provide, may include excerpts from Jennifer Wenzel's The Disposition of Nature, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World, Rob Nixon’s Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and more.
