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245 14 a| The weird South :b| ecologies of unknowing in postplantation literature /c| Melanie Benson Taylor.;

264 1 a| Athens, Georgia :b| The University of Georgia Press,c| 2025.;

300 a| xxii, 98 pages ;c| 23 cm.;

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490 1 a| Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures ;;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

520 a| "How do we read southern literature in a postplantation, postregional, and posthuman moment? How do we address the urgent contemporary catastrophes of the Anthropocene in these newly leveled landscapes? Put simply, how do we parse the levels of human responsibility--both for apocalypse and for deliverance--in contexts where settler-colonial and racial capitalist histories dramatically shape our reality? Reading modern and contemporary southern literary texts from a variety of perspectives, these lectures engage the new materialist, object-oriented ontologies that critique and decenter human agency while uncovering the lasting, determinative, haunting realities of humanity's detention within what Timothy Morton calls the "weird" web of our entwined social, racial, economic, and natural ecologies. As a concept in the burgeoning conversation about Anthropocenic disaster and climate emergency, the "weird" is a powerful way to conceptualize not just human hubris but also humility: we are no different from, no more powerful than, any other living or inanimate objects-neither the organisms that take up residence in our bodies nor the myriad things that we imagine we create, fashion, patrol, and control"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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The weird South : ecologies of unknowing in postplantation literature / Melanie Benson Taylor.

Author/creator	Taylor, Melanie Benson, 1976- author.
Format	Book
Publication	Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, 2025.
Description	xxii, 98 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects	American literature--Southern States. --History and criticism. American literature--20th century. --History and criticism. Landscapes in literature. Environmental degradation in literature. Literature and society--United States. --History. --20th century. Ecocriticism.

Series	Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures ; Mercer University Lamar memorial lectures ; no. 61. ^A303712
Abstract	"How do we read southern literature in a postplantation, postregional, and posthuman moment? How do we address the urgent contemporary catastrophes of the Anthropocene in these newly leveled landscapes? Put simply, how do we parse the levels of human responsibility--both for apocalypse and for deliverance--in contexts where settler-colonial and racial capitalist histories dramatically shape our reality? Reading modern and contemporary southern literary texts from a variety of perspectives, these lectures engage the new materialist, object-oriented ontologies that critique and decenter human agency while uncovering the lasting, determinative, haunting realities of humanity's detention within what Timothy Morton calls the "weird" web of our entwined social, racial, economic, and natural ecologies. As a concept in the burgeoning conversation about Anthropocenic disaster and climate emergency, the "weird" is a powerful way to conceptualize not just human hubris but also humility: we are no different from, no more powerful than, any other living or inanimate objects-neither the organisms that take up residence in our bodies nor the myriad things that we imagine we create, fashion, patrol, and control"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other form	ebook version : 9780820373867
LCCN	2025007422
ISBN	9780820373843
ISBN	9780820373836 hardcover
ISBN	0820373834 hardcover
ISBN	0820373842 paperback
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