Entanglements, Narratives, and the Environment

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This compelling volume offers a rich array of contributions that vividly demonstrate that "the natural" is inherently political (Winkler). Across its range of insightful analyses covering different genres, regions, periods and theoretical approaches, Entanglements, Narratives, and the Environment: Inter-American Perspectives explores the critical role of narrative and storytelling in shaping contemporary discourses and politics of climate change. Significantly, it moves beyond traditional national frameworks, providing a nuanced understanding of environmental issues across the Americas, and of the intricate expansive entanglements of the local. -- Linda Hess, University of Augsburg, Germany "Offering a broad range of interdisciplinary perspectives on issues such as climate change, petrocultures, and the Anthropocene, the analyses of Entanglements, Narratives, and the Environment: Inter-American Perspectives present a timely and thought-provoking contribution to ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. An inspiring volume for spotlighting how Inter-American Studies perspectives can help us rethink the local and global socio-politics of environmental crises." -- Matthias Klestil, University of Klagenfurt "This collection sheds light on environmental narratives from an Inter-American perspective, which opens up the possibilities to consider the climate crisis in a more relational, entangled, manner. The volume engages with transnational and transdisciplinary approaches drawing on literary and cultural studies, as well as history and political sciences, thus providing an extremely valuable contribution to the existing scholarship on environmental humanities.: -- Rosario Arias, University of Malaga