This volume traces the interconnections between myth, environmentalism, narrative, poetry, comics and innovative artistic practice, using this as a framework through which to examine strategies for repairing our unhealthy relationship with the planet.
This volume traces the interconnections between myth, environmentalism, narrative, poetry, comics and innovative artistic practice, using this as a framework through which to examine strategies for repairing our unhealthy relationship with the planet.
Esther Sánchez-Pardo is Professor of English at Complutense University, Madrid, Spain. María Porras Sánchez is an Assistant Professor at Complutense University, Madrid, Spain, and a literary translator.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: myth and environmentalism: entanglements, synergies, openings PART I: Myth, disaster and present-day views on ecological damage 1. The afterlife of Chornobyl: apocalyptic mythology and environmentalism in the Exclusion Zone 2. Myths of wilderness and motherhood in postapocalyptic narratives of the Anthropocene PART II: Indigenous and Afro-diasporic myths and ecological knowledge 3. Boundless water, boundless ice-Arctic cosmological concepts in times of melting horizons 4. Revisiting the wild: mythology and ecological wisdom in shalan joudry's Waking Ground 5. Myth, Afrodiasporic spirituality, and the oceanic archive in independent comics PART III: Artistic practices, myth and environmental resilience 6. "Giant by Thine Own Nature": Jean-Baptiste Débret and Antônio Parreiras' mythic Brazilian land(scape)s through a transatlantic gaze 7. New cosmogonies of waste negotiated in the art of Mohamed Larbi Rahhali 8. Death is life is death is life: continual regeneration in myth and the art of Maki Ohkojima 9. Coda: a radical evocation of seed
Introduction: myth and environmentalism: entanglements, synergies, openings PART I: Myth, disaster and present-day views on ecological damage 1. The afterlife of Chornobyl: apocalyptic mythology and environmentalism in the Exclusion Zone 2. Myths of wilderness and motherhood in postapocalyptic narratives of the Anthropocene PART II: Indigenous and Afro-diasporic myths and ecological knowledge 3. Boundless water, boundless ice-Arctic cosmological concepts in times of melting horizons 4. Revisiting the wild: mythology and ecological wisdom in shalan joudry's Waking Ground 5. Myth, Afrodiasporic spirituality, and the oceanic archive in independent comics PART III: Artistic practices, myth and environmental resilience 6. "Giant by Thine Own Nature": Jean-Baptiste Débret and Antônio Parreiras' mythic Brazilian land(scape)s through a transatlantic gaze 7. New cosmogonies of waste negotiated in the art of Mohamed Larbi Rahhali 8. Death is life is death is life: continual regeneration in myth and the art of Maki Ohkojima 9. Coda: a radical evocation of seed
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