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View article: Lost Words and Lost Worlds: Combatting Environmental Generational Amnesia
Lost Words and Lost Worlds: Combatting Environmental Generational Amnesia Open
This essay explores the problem of society’s environmental memory loss and the potential for literary and cultural works to counteract it. It uses the concepts of environmental generational amnesia and shifting baseline syndrome to argue t…
View article: Memory dynamics in times of crisis: An interview with Sarah Gensburger
Memory dynamics in times of crisis: An interview with Sarah Gensburger Open
Working at the intersection of political science, ethnographic sociology, and contemporary historiography, Sarah Gensburger specializes in the social dynamics of memory. In this interview, she talks about her book Memory on My Doorstep: Ch…
View article: Introduction: Ecological Grief
Introduction: Ecological Grief Open
Introduction:Ecological Grief Stef Craps (bio) Now is a time for grief to persist, to ring throughout the world. —Timothy Morton, Ecology without Nature, 2007, p. 185 Marybeth Holleman's poem "How to grieve a glacier," published in ISLE in…
View article: Grief as a Doorway to Love: An Interview with Chris Jordan
Grief as a Doorway to Love: An Interview with Chris Jordan Open
Grief as a Doorway to Love:An Interview with Chris Jordan Stef Craps (bio) and Ida Marie Olsen (bio) The renowned American photographer, filmmaker, and artist Chris Jordan is no stranger to ecological grief. His stunning 2017 film Albatros…
View article: Beyond Identification in Human Rights Culture: Voice of Witness’s<i>Voices from the Storm</i>and Dave Eggers’s<i>Zeitoun</i>
Beyond Identification in Human Rights Culture: Voice of Witness’s<i>Voices from the Storm</i>and Dave Eggers’s<i>Zeitoun</i> Open
In this article, we analyse two testimonial narratives written or published by Dave Eggers, an American author, editor, and publisher whose oeuvre shows a marked interest in harnessing the power of narrative to engage in human rights activ…
View article: Jeff Nichols's Take Shelter (2011) : Psychic Cli-Fi
Jeff Nichols's Take Shelter (2011) : Psychic Cli-Fi Open
This essay gives an overview of the central themes and formal features of Jeff Nichols’s cli-fi film Take Shelter (2011). It also provides insight into the film’s reception and contribution to public debate, as well as offering some teachi…
View article: Tracing transnational memory : from celebration to critique
Tracing transnational memory : from celebration to critique Open
In recent years, scholarship on transnational or transcultural memory has become more clear-eyed about the limitations of remembering across national or cultural boundaries. The initial euphoria has dampened: critics these days are more li…
View article: Introduction: The Rising Tide of Climate Change Fiction
Introduction: The Rising Tide of Climate Change Fiction Open
The call for papers for this collection on “The Rising Tide of Climate Change Fiction” arose from concerns about pessimistic assessments, in recent literary criticism, of the novel’s ability to meet the representational challenges posed by…
View article: Roundtable on Moving Memory, with Stef Craps, Astrid Erll, Paula McFetridge, Ann Rigney and Dominic Thorpe. Convened by Charlotte McIvor and Emilie Pine
Roundtable on Moving Memory, with Stef Craps, Astrid Erll, Paula McFetridge, Ann Rigney and Dominic Thorpe. Convened by Charlotte McIvor and Emilie Pine Open
This roundtable brings together a group of academics and artists working throughout Europe to discuss the question of memory in theoretical and artistic contexts at a historical moment highly preoccupied with acts of commemoration and movi…