Planetary Memory in Contemporary American Fiction (Hardcover)

Introduction: Planetary memory in contemporary American fiction Lucy Bond, Ben De Bruyn and Jessica Rapson

1. Future readers: narrating the human in the Anthropocene Pieter Vermeulen

2. Speculative memory, the planetary and genre fiction Richard Crownshaw

3. ‘Family territory’ to the ‘circumference of the earth’: local and planetary memories of climate change in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour Christopher Lloyd and Jessica Rapson

4. Writing the liquid city: excavating urban ecologies after Katrina Anna Hartnell

5. Realism 4°. Objects, weather and infrastructure in Ben Lerner’s 10:04 Ben De Bruyn

6. ‘I love Alaska’: posthuman subjectivity and memory on the final frontier of our ecological crisis Sebastian Groes

7. ‘In the eyeblink of a planet you were born, died, and your bones disintegrated’: scales of mourning and velocities of memory in Philipp Meyer’s American Rust Lucy Bond

8. Afterword: The time of planetary memory Claire Colebrook