Thinking Continental
Writing the Planet One Place at a Time
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Pub Date Nov 01 2017 | Archive Date Dec 14 2017
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.
Advance Praise
“This is exactly the kind of book that helps us to understand where and who we are, what it means to be ‘emplaced’ on this planet.”—Scott Slovic, coeditor of Ecocritical Aesthetics: Language, Beauty, and the Environment
“With the help of literature, these essays and poems lead us from personal particulars to our shared planet, and in so doing, they nourish our filamentary imaginations.”—SueEllen Campbell, author of The Face of the Earth: Natural Landscapes, Science
“Time and again I found articles, essays, and poems working together like facets of a prism, a succeeding work illuminating the one before it and setting up resonances with the one to follow.”—Robert Root, author of Postscripts: Retrospections on Time and Place
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780803299580 |
| PRICE | $29.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 378 |
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Bonnye Reed F, Reviewer
This is an extraordinary collection of essays concerning our planet Earth, one that it is hard to put down and impossible to argue against. I would recommend to both climate change believers and those still refusing to see the rapidly changing world we will have to live in down the road unless drastic changes in our lifestyles are made now. It is impossible to pick out a favorite so you will just need to read them all.
I received a free electronic copy of this collection of essays from various authors, editor Susan Naramore Maher, Netgalley and University of Nebraska Press in exchange for an honest review. Thank you all for sharing your work with me.
