Entanglements, Narratives, and the Environment

Eva Bauer earned her Joint Master’s degree in English and American Studies from the University of Graz (Austria) and the Université Paris Cité (France).Nicole Haring is senior scientist at the Center for Inter-American Studies at the University of Graz, AustriaRoberta Maierhofer is professor of American studies and director of the Center for Inter-American Studies at the University of Graz, Austria.

• Part I: Histories: Indigeneity, Coloniality, and Human RightsChapter 1The Mortality Cost of Carbon Extraction: Oil, Indigenous Lives, and Human Rights in the AmericasGeorgiana BanitaChapter 2Environmental Coloniality and ‘Regressive’ Neo-ExtractivismRicardo Pagliuso Regatieri Part II: Literatures: Multi-Species Stories and Human-Nature Entanglements Chapter 3The Weather in Thoreau: Different Dimensions of Climate (Change) in Walden and BeyondRobert A. Winkler Chapter 4Thornton Wilder’s Un-Aristotelian Warning: The Skin of Our Teeth as Climate PlayRéka M. Cristian Chapter 5The Environmental Paradox of Robotics. A Reading of Klara and the Sun by Kazuo IshiguroAdriana Kiczkowski Chapter 6Living in Symbiosis with Nature: Race and the American Landscape as Depicted in Joseph Drew Lanham’s Life Writing The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature (2016)Lena Leßlhumer Chapter 7The Last Generation: Cherríe Moraga’s Prose and Poetry, the Chthulucene, and Intersectional EnvironmentalismNicole HaringPart III: Films: (In)Justices and HopeChapter 8The Vertical Dimension of the American West: Mining and the Media Archaeology of Navajo LandMichael Fuchs and Christian Quendler Chapter 9Staying Hopeful with Climate Change: A Documentary Analysis Francesca Mallocci

This compelling volume offers a rich array of contributions that vividly demonstrate that “the natural” is inherently political (Winkler). Across its range of insightful analyses covering different genres, regions, periods and theoretical approaches, Entanglements, Narratives, and the Environment: Inter-American Perspectives explores the critical role of narrative and storytelling in shaping contemporary discourses and politics of climate change. Significantly, it moves beyond traditional national frameworks, providing a nuanced understanding of environmental issues across the Americas, and of the intricate expansive entanglements of the local.