Wai Chee Dimock is the William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. She is the author of three scholarly books, most recently, Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time.

• List of FiguresIntroduction EndangeredIRevamped Genres1Still HungryLouise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie Edit Mary Rowlandson2Almost ExtinctElegy, Pastoral, and Sounds in and out of Thoreau3Less Than TragicC. L. R. James, Frank Stella, and Amitav Ghosh Dilute MelvilleIIRebuilt Networks4Contagiously IrishColm Tóibín, W. B. Yeats, and Gish Jen Infect Henry James5Vaguely IslamicHenri Matisse, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and Langston Hughes, with Paul Bowles6Remotely JapaneseWilliam Faulkner Indigenous and Trans-PacificAfterword Not Paralyzed Acknowledgments Notes Index

"Focusing on indigenous creativity, Dimock develops a methodology rooted simultaneously in elemental loss and indomitable salvage. Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival traces a crisis-responsive art form, moving purposefully through multiple literary genres, critical theories, cultural geographies, and temporalities in order to tease out suppressed familiarities and cautious optimism for the Anthropocene’s as-yet-unwritten futures."

Wai Chee Dimock is the William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. She is the author of three scholarly books, most recently, Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time.

• List of FiguresIntroduction EndangeredIRevamped Genres1Still HungryLouise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie Edit Mary Rowlandson2Almost ExtinctElegy, Pastoral, and Sounds in and out of Thoreau3Less Than TragicC. L. R. James, Frank Stella, and Amitav Ghosh Dilute MelvilleIIRebuilt Networks4Contagiously IrishColm Tóibín, W. B. Yeats, and Gish Jen Infect Henry James5Vaguely IslamicHenri Matisse, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and Langston Hughes, with Paul Bowles6Remotely JapaneseWilliam Faulkner Indigenous and Trans-PacificAfterword Not Paralyzed Acknowledgments Notes Index

"Focusing on indigenous creativity, Dimock develops a methodology rooted simultaneously in elemental loss and indomitable salvage. Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival traces a crisis-responsive art form, moving purposefully through multiple literary genres, critical theories, cultural geographies, and temporalities in order to tease out suppressed familiarities and cautious optimism for the Anthropocene’s as-yet-unwritten futures."

Wai Chee Dimock is the William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. She is the author of three scholarly books, most recently, Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time.

• List of FiguresIntroduction EndangeredIRevamped Genres1Still HungryLouise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie Edit Mary Rowlandson2Almost ExtinctElegy, Pastoral, and Sounds in and out of Thoreau3Less Than TragicC. L. R. James, Frank Stella, and Amitav Ghosh Dilute MelvilleIIRebuilt Networks4Contagiously IrishColm Tóibín, W. B. Yeats, and Gish Jen Infect Henry James5Vaguely IslamicHenri Matisse, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and Langston Hughes, with Paul Bowles6Remotely JapaneseWilliam Faulkner Indigenous and Trans-PacificAfterword Not Paralyzed Acknowledgments Notes Index

"Focusing on indigenous creativity, Dimock develops a methodology rooted simultaneously in elemental loss and indomitable salvage. Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival traces a crisis-responsive art form, moving purposefully through multiple literary genres, critical theories, cultural geographies, and temporalities in order to tease out suppressed familiarities and cautious optimism for the Anthropocene’s as-yet-unwritten futures."