| Title: |
Conclusion ; Modernist World-Ecology |
| Authors: |
Shackleton, David |
| Source: |
British Modernism and the Anthropocene ; page 179-189 ; ISBN 0192857746 9780192857743 9780191948626 |
| Publisher Information: |
Oxford University PressOxford |
| Publication Year: |
2023 |
| Description: |
Channelling a critical counter-mood from the previous chapter, the book concludes by calling for a modernist world-ecology. In response to recent calls for ‘weak theory’ to be used to generate a strong field of modernism, this conclusion argues that environmental approaches to modernism are better served by using unfashionably ‘strong theory’. Specifically, it appeals to the Warwick Research Collective’s theory of world-literature as a means of scaling-up environmental approaches to modernism. It is not just a question of how certain writers represent (or fail to represent) environmental transformations that occur on a planetary scale, but also of comparing how writers from different locations in the world register that crisis. By virtue of their concerns with time and history that make them so adept at rendering different experiences of modernity, works of modernist world-literature promise to enrich the understanding of the environmental crisis supplied by the ‘Capitalocene’ and the ‘Plantationocene’, in what would constitute a distinctively modernist world-ecology. Reading works of modernist world-literature can thereby open better ways of being in the world, and better possibilities of political action. |
| Document Type: |
book part |
| Language: |
English |
| ISBN: |
978-0-19-285774-3; 978-0-19-194862-6; 0-19-285774-6; 0-19-194862-4 |
| DOI: |
10.1093/oso/9780192857743.003.0007 |
| Availability: |
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192857743.003.0007; https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/51067686/oso-9780192857743-chapter-7.pdf |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.9FF84C71 |
| Database: |
BASE |