Thinking continental
Subtitle: writing the planet one place at a time
By: edited by Tom Lynch, Susan Naramore Maher, Drucilla Wall, and O. Alan Weltzien
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780803299580
Subjects: Home; Globalization; Literary collections; Place (Philosophy)
Description: In response to the growing scale and complexity of environmental threats, this volume collects articles, essays, personal narratives, and poems by more than forty authors in conversation about "thinking continental"--connecting local and personal landscapes to universal systems and processes--to articulate the concept of a global or planetary citizenship. Reckoning with the larger matrix of biome, region, continent, hemisphere, ocean, and planet has become necessary as environmental challenges require the insights not only of scientists but also of poets, humanists, and social scientists. Thinking Continental braids together abstract approaches with strands of more-personal narrative and poetry, showing how our imaginations can encompass the planetary while also being true to our own concrete life experiences in the here and now. -- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.