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Stray Writing: Navigating The Great Derangement

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posted on 2018-09-03, 00:00 authored by Jack KirneJack Kirne
Many theorists have lamented the lack of serious literary fiction addressing the shifting realities of climate change, or ecological collapse. While the reasons for this lack are diverse, most hinge on the temporal dimensions of the Anthropocene. This paper—via a study of work emerging in the environmental humanities—is an attempt to fragment the totalising rhetoric of geological shift by illustrating that the Anthropocene affects humans and non-humans on narrative timescales that are neither apocalyptic nor gradual. In conclusion, drawing upon Barbara Creed’s formulation of the stray (2017), I advocate for the stray novel and provide a series of provocations for further research.

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Journal

C i n d e r : creative interventions & new directions in expressive research

Article number

ART760

Pagination

1-12

Location

Geelong, Vic.

Open access

  • Yes

eISSN

2209-7775

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Issue

1

Publisher

Deakin University

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