'Mechanically separated...' is a personal essay considering how bodies of animals and plants are entangled in the human desire called tourism, explicitly related here to colonialism, extinction, and Anthropocene.
Pagination
5-7ISSN
1835-5668Language
engResearch statement
Background
While existing scholarship often considers this in relation to fiction and the novel, creative nonfiction and personal essay that elaborate on the lived experience of climate crisis can also contribute to this project. Responding to climate crisis in literature necessitates writing at the intersection of science, literature, and the everyday experience of human and nonhuman entities. It involves reading existing stories and narrative forms with an eye for these intersections. This portfolio contains four works of short fiction and creative nonfiction that directly respond to climate crisis, and to the kinds of specific formal challenges writers face as they write 'place' during climate crisis.
'Mechanically separated...' is a personal essay considering how bodies of animals and plants are entangled in the human desire called tourism, explicitly related here to colonialism, extinction, and Anthropocene.
'Mechanically separated...' appeared in The Lifted Brow, an Australian literary journal that has included contributions from Margaret Atwood, Eileen Miles and Teju Cole and was awarded Best Original Nonfiction at the Stack Awards in both 2015 and 2019Publication classification
JO4 Original Creative Works – OtherIssue
36Publisher
The Lifted BrowPlace of publication
Melbourne, Vic.Source
The Lifted Brow
