Full title: Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature Though non-fiction, this text covers novels and narratives written by Africans and, according to Yale News, the book: …highlights how literary texts call attention to human-caused environmental degradation on the continent, including the ways in which postcolonial […]
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Occasionally we post notable nonfiction books that are central creative works contributing to environmental injustice or natural history, or that contain narratives about the state of humanity’s connection with nature as depicted in works of fiction. This book is forthcoming in September 2016. Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist […]
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Off Grid and Free: My Path to the Wilderness is the story of the journey Ron Melchiore undertook as a young man from the city, first to homesteading in northern Maine and then to living in the bush of northern Saskatchewan. He has lived off grid since approximately 1980 and […]
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Thanks to author Christian Chelebourg for bringing to our attention his book of essays and thoughts about pollution, global warming, natural disasters, epidemics, and genetic engineering found in over two hundred novels, cartoons, essays, documentaries, poetry, and movies. Pollution, réchauffement climatique, catastrophes naturelles, épidémies, manipulations génétiques font partie de notre […]
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Transformations in Cuban art, literature and culture in the post-Fidel era Cuba has been in a state of massive transformation over the past decade, with its historic resumption of diplomatic relations with the United States only the latest development. While the political leadership has changed direction, other forces have taken […]
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Contemporary visions of the future have been shaped by hopes and fears about the effects of human technology and global capitalism on the natural world. In an era of climate change, mass extinction, and oil shortage, such visions have become increasingly catastrophic, even apocalyptic. Exploring the close relationship between science […]
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Discover how writing fiction can make the world a better place. This book offers instruction, inspiration and prompts for writing climate fiction, which is speculative fiction that focuses primarily on the ways that climate change is transforming our world. Explore how plot, place, and character development can make climate change […]
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Occasionally we post notable non-fiction here, especially when it either covers eco-fiction history or when it is written so creatively that it tells an engaging story. While Glaciers Slept is one such new book. While Glaciers Slept weaves together the parallel stories of what happens when the climates of a […]
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Watch Goodreads for giveaways between April 15 and June 8! The 21st century represents the Age of the Environment. For the first time in the planet’s history, one species has achieved the might of a geophysical force. Thoughtful, hopeful, and thoroughly readable, Two Houses of Oikos is a journey through […]
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Though this book is non-fiction, it might be one of the first to seriously study climate change novels. Publication date: April 20, 2015. Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the Earth’s atmosphere, committing our planet to more extreme weather, rising sea levels, melting polar ice caps, and mass extinction. […]
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Energy scholar Vaclav Smil wrote in 2003, “Tug at any human use of energy and you will find its effects cascading throughout society.” Too often public discussions of energy-related issues become gridlocked in debates concerning cost, environmental degradation, and the plausibility (or implausibility) of innovative technologies. But the topic of […]
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This volume contains material written by John Burroughs, the American naturalist, best remembered for his essays on nature, in the closing months of his life. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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See more at the University of Calgary Press. Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to understand and often to celebrate the natural world, yet it does so indirectly by […]
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This book is published by Milkweed Editions. From Amazon: John James Audubon is renowned for his masterpiece of natural history and art, The Birds of America, the first nearly comprehensive survey of the continent’s birdlife. And yet few people understand, and many assume incorrectly, what sort of man he was. […]
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Though we normally do not catalog non-fiction (with the exception of some notable essays), we’re making an exception for a few books now and then that really impacted society. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book […]
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