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T1 Materiality, responsibility and Anthropocene thought in Robert  Macfarlane’s and Kathleen Jamie’s Nature Writing
A1 Zechner, Iris
K1 Anthropocene
K1 New Nature Writing
K1 Ecocriticism
K1 New materialisms
K1 Environmental ethics
K1 Antropoceno
K1 Ecocrítica
K1 Nuevos materialismos
K1 Ética medioambiental
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
K1 Medio ambiente
K1 Environmental science
AB The concept of the Anthropocene, denoting humans as geological agents, severely complicates traditional Western distinctions between culture and nature, the human and the nonhuman world. Contrary to anthropocentric accounts, the new materialisms have established a post-humanist reading of the Anthropocene that destabilises such dichotomies, placing human beings on par with the world they encounter. This approach can also be found in the “New Nature Writing” (NNW), a body of creative nonfiction that seeks to reconnect the “human animal” to nature, with the ever-open question of the nature of nature itself. A reading of Robert Macfarlane’s work with a focus on his recent “Underland” shows the ways in which the growing awareness of the Anthropocene has influenced contemporary nature writing, allowing Macfarlane to establish a non-anthropocentric perspective following the new materialisms. While likewise adopting a new materialist stance, Kathleen Jamie’s collections of naturalist essays nevertheless question the implications of this ontological framework, in particular with regard to ethics and human responsibility in times of the Anthropocene.
PB Universidad de Alcalá
SN 2171-9594
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/49985
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/49985
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 09-jun-2023