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T1 "Cultivating an ability to imagine": Ryan Walsh's "Reckonings" and the poetics of toxicity
A1 Slovic, Scott
K1 Poetics of toxicity
K1 Toxic discourse
K1 Slow violence
K1 Transcorporeality
K1 Ecoprecarity
K1 Poética de la toxicidad
K1 Discurso tóxico
K1 Violencia lenta
K1 Transcorporalidad
K1 Ecoprecariedad
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
K1 Medio ambiente
K1 Environmental science
AB For nearly two decades since Lawrence Buell defined and anatomized “toxic discourse” in “Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond” (2001), the storying of toxic experience has received fruitful theoretical and literary attention. Throughout the world, citizens have come to terms with the reality that we live on a poisoned planet and the poisons in our environment are also in ourselves—the poisons our industrial activities spew into the air, water, soil, and food are almost imperceptibly (“slowly,” as Rob Nixon would put it) absorbed into all of our bodies (through the process Stacy Alaimo described as “transcorporeality”). Biologist and literary activist Sandra Steingraber stated in “Living Downstream: A Scientist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment” (1997) that we must “cultivat[e] an ability to imagine” in order to appreciate the meaning of our post-industrial lives. In this essay, I focus on Ryan Walsh’s new collection of poetry, “Reckonings” (2019), and on Pramod K. Nayar’s recent ecocritical study, “Bhopal’s Ecological Gothic: Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny” (2017), in order to propose and define an evolving “poetics of toxicity.”
PB Universidad de Alcalá
SN 2171-9594
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/45734
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/45734
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 20-abr-2024