Americans and Climate Change: Transnationalism and Reflection in Environmental Writing

This article reads three American works of climate change life writing in order to examine how print culture in America is responding to growing awareness of the threat of global climate change. Engaging with Ursula Heise’s work on American environmental writing, I argue against a binary conception...

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Hovedforfatter: Glaser, Brian
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprog:Anglais
Udgivet: European journal of American studies 2014
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Summary:This article reads three American works of climate change life writing in order to examine how print culture in America is responding to growing awareness of the threat of global climate change. Engaging with Ursula Heise’s work on American environmental writing, I argue against a binary conception of cosmopolitan and provincial responses to this threat, seeking to show how ambitious individual reactions to climate change are complicated and enhanced by ways of relating and collaborating with other humans and other species.