Re-inventing the Mythic West: From Anthropocene Disorientation to Eco-Aesthetic Entanglements in Nicholas Royle’s Mother: A Memoir (2020)
In his memoir about his mother entitled Mother: A Memoir (2020), Nicholas Royle notes that, for his family, the west is associated with securing better prospects. But heading west has nothing to do with emigration to the New World, it does not involve crossing any boundaries or oceans. It is instead...
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Études britanniques contemporaines
2024
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| Acceso en liña: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | In his memoir about his mother entitled Mother: A Memoir (2020), Nicholas Royle notes that, for his family, the west is associated with securing better prospects. But heading west has nothing to do with emigration to the New World, it does not involve crossing any boundaries or oceans. It is instead about staying on familiar English soils and moving to the West Country. At the end of the memoir, Royle returns to this idiosyncratic yearning for the west, and, as this paper shows, he uses it as a point of departure that allows him to elaborate an Anthropocene poetics which unmoors any settled vision of subjectivity, spatiality, and temporality and which re-inscribes them into Anthropocene grounds. This paper argues that, in so doing, Royle rewrites the mythic west into a place of eco-aesthetic, multispecies entanglement. |
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