Wild Abandon
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- November 2020
- December 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781108909952
- 9781108842563
- 9781108829458
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.55kg, 266 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.436kg, 266 Pages
- Series:
- Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (185)
- Subjects:
- Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Literary Theory
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- Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Literary Theory
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Book description
The American wilderness narrative, which divides nature from culture, has remained remarkably persistent despite the rise of ecological science, which emphasizes interconnection between these spheres. Wild Abandon considers how ecology's interaction with radical politics of authenticity in the twentieth century has kept that narrative alive in altered form. As ecology gained political momentum in the 1960s and 1970s, many environmentalists combined it with ideas borrowed from psychoanalysis and a variety of identity-based social movements. The result was an identity politics of ecology that framed ecology itself as an authentic identity position repressed by cultural forms, including social differences and even selfhood. Through readings of texts by Edward Abbey, Simon Ortiz, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Jon Krakauer, among others, Alexander Menrisky argues that writers have both dramatized and critiqued this tendency, in the process undermining the concept of authenticity altogether and granting insight into alternative histories of identity and environment.
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