Planetary Memory in Contemporary American Fiction
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 140006177
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780367519773
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This book was originally published as a Special Issue of the Journal Textual Practice (31: 5, 2017). This was selected by Routledge for re-publication as an edited book (2019). This jointly edited collection was based on papers presented at a series of symposia for the project The Natural History of Memory, part-funded by the University of Westminster between 2014-15. Following a successful event in London, further funding was provided by the Universities of Ghent and Maastricht respectively, and the latter event was co-organised by Rapson, Bond (University of Westminster) and de Bruyn (Maastricht). Rapson’s contribution to the Special Issue and subsequent book was as an expert in memory studies and the environmental humanities. The curation and editing of the volume was jointly performed by Bond, de Bruyn and Rapson, with several chapters developed from papers delivered at the symposia series. The introduction to the volume was also jointly authored by the editors. The introduction proposes an original approach to the examination of American fiction rooted in the notion of ‘planetary memory’, a model which recognises the distinctive role of the planet (as opposed to simply the ‘global’) in representation of climate change and the anthropocene. Rapson’s particular contribution was to situate ‘planetary memory’ as a development in the so-called third phase of Memory Studies, which acknowledges the expansion of memory culture beyond the boundaries of nation states. Rapson also contributed the jointly co-authored chapter ‘“Family territory” to the “circumference of the earth”: local and planetary memories of climate change in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour’ (Lloyd and Rapson). This chapter makes a significant contribution in identifying a distinctive paradigm for examining climate change and anthropocene fiction, namely the identification of the narrative oscillation between human and non-human experience and memory, from the local to the planetary.
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- Non-English
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