Ecoprecarity: Vulnerable Lives in Literature and Culture presents an examination of ecoprecarity - the precarious lives that humans lead in the process and event of ecological disaster, and the increasing precarious state of the environment itself as a result of human interventions - in contemporary literary-cultural texts. It studies the representation of 'invasion narratives' of the human body and the earth by alien life forms, the ecodystopian vision that informs much environmental thought in popular cultures, the states of ontological integrity and genetic belonging in the age of cloning, xenotransplantation and biotechnology's 'capitalisation' of life itself, and the construction of the 'wild' in these texts. It pays attention to the ecological uncanny and the monstrous that haunts ecodystopias and forms of natureculture that emerge in the bioeconomies since the late twentieth century.
Author(s): Pramod K. Nayar
Series: Routledge Studies In World Literatures And The Environment
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 197
Tags: Ecology, Environment, World Literatures, Vulnerable Lives
Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Series Page......Page 3
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
1 Ecoprecarity: An Introduction......Page 12
2 Biosecurity and Invasion in the ‘Outbreak Narrative’......Page 28
Hosts, Contagions and the Invasion/Outbreak Narrative......Page 30
Frames of Apprehension, Precarity and Their Necrospective History......Page 33
The ‘Host’ Body......Page 37
The Grotesque Body......Page 38
The Human, the Clone and the Organs......Page 43
3 Dystopias and the ‘Ecological Uncanny’......Page 56
Ecological Thought and the Dystopian Imagination......Page 58
The Antiquarian Uncanny and Ecoprecarity......Page 61
The Architectural Uncanny......Page 70
Spectral Landscapes......Page 71
Waste and the Ecological Uncanny......Page 75
Waste and the Decadent Sublime......Page 78
The Decadent Sublime and the Uncanny......Page 86
Ecodystopias and Their Reproductive Uncanny......Page 87
Pathological Reproduction and Uncanny Kinship......Page 93
Teratogenesis and Species Reproduction......Page 98
4 The Wild and Its Feral Biopolitics......Page 104
The Idea of Wilderness in the Age of Precarity......Page 105
Carnal Geographies......Page 111
‘Nature Red in Tooth and Claw’......Page 112
Carnal Geography as Animal Heterotopia......Page 114
Feral Biopolitics......Page 119
The Feral and the Idea of Human Civilization......Page 120
Postnatural Wilderness and the Feral......Page 126
Feral Childhoods......Page 129
5 Live Capital, Bioeconomies and Endangered Belonging......Page 137
The Precarious Bodies of Biocapitalism......Page 139
Possession and Labour......Page 140
The Judicialization of Life Itself......Page 144
Genetic Citizenship and Precarious Belonging......Page 148
Community, Genetic Ancestry and Belonging......Page 149
The Quest for Origin(al)s......Page 160
Tales of the Vanishing Subject......Page 163
The Romance of Species Cosmopolitanism......Page 166
Precarious Natureculture in the Age of the Genome......Page 168
Genomic Histories and Cultural Genomics......Page 170
The Future Genomics......Page 176
Bibliography......Page 182
Index......Page 194
