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Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene

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Editors:
  1. Ina Batzke

    1. American Studies, Faculty of Philology & History, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

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  2. Lea Espinoza Garrido

    1. American Studies, Faculty of Humanities & Cultural Studies, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

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  3. Linda M. Hess

    1. American Studies, Faculty of Philology & History, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

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  • Explores the intersections between posthumanism, ecocriticism and life writing
  • Questions whether life writing can evolve to take the posthuman into account, being bound to human perspectives
  • Examines how research on life writing can help us to navigate the environmental crises of the Anthropocene

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing (PSLW)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene

    • Ina Batzke, Lea Espinoza Garrido, Linda M. Hess
    Pages 1-19

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 257-268
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About this book

Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene is a timely collection of insightful contributions that negotiate how the genre of life writing, traditionally tied to the human perspective and thus anthropocentric qua definition, can provide adequate perspectives for an age of ecological disasters and global climate change. The volume’s eight chapters illustrate the aptness of life writing and life writing studies to critically reevaluate the role of “the human” vis-à-vis non-human others while remaining mindful of persisting inequalities between humans regarding who causes and who suffers damage in the Anthropocene age. The authors in this collection not only expand the toolbox of life writing studies by engaging with critical insights from the fields of posthumanism and ecocriticism, but, in turn, also enrich those fields by offering unique approaches to contemplate the responsibility of humans for as well as their relational existence in the posthuman Anthropocene.


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“Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene is a down-to-earth (quite literally) posthumanist account that substitutes speculative futurism for a much-needed socioecological sensitivity. Students of the aging process would be inspired by the ways in which their object is put into perspective … . The book would also benefit anyone interested in the intersection between environmental and biographical studies … .” (João Pedro Martinez Pinheiro, Anthropology & Aging, Vol. 44 (1), 2023)

Editors and Affiliations

  • American Studies, Faculty of Philology & History, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

    Ina Batzke, Linda M. Hess

  • American Studies, Faculty of Humanities & Cultural Studies, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

    Lea Espinoza Garrido

About the editors

Ina Batzke is a researcher and lecturer in American Studies at the University of Augsburg, Germany. She has published a monograph on life narratives of undocumented migrants and co-edited a special issue on Storied Citizenship. Her current research project concerns the productivity of nature writing as a genre for the Anthropocene.

Lea Espinoza Garrido is a researcher and lecturer in American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. She has published on racialized and gendered representations in contemporary American and European popular culture and has co-edited a special issue on Migrant States of Exception.

Linda M. Hess is a senior lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of American Studies at the University of Augsburg, Germany. She is the author of Queer Aging in North American Fiction (2019). Her current research focuses on ideas of grievability, preservation, and loss in ecocriticism.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene

  • Editors: Ina Batzke, Lea Espinoza Garrido, Linda M. Hess

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77973-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77972-6Published: 14 December 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77975-7Published: 15 December 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-77973-3Published: 01 January 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2730-9185

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-9193

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 268

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Literary Theory, Literature, general

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