Description: Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change by Lee Zimmerman Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Zimmerman presents an interdisciplinary study of climate change and how the dominant discourses associated with it contribute to a form of cultural denial. It explores how the climate change discourse can be illuminated by framing it in terms of the trope of trauma, and considers how literary responses to the climate crisis participate in this. Publisher Description The more the global north has learned about the existential threat of climate change, the faster it has emitted greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. In Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change, Lee Zimmerman thinks about why this is by examining how "climate change" has been discursively constructed, tracing how the ways we talk and write about climate change have worked to normalize a generalized, bipartisan denialism more profound than that of the overt "denialists."Suggesting that we understand that normalized denial as a form of cultural trauma, the book explores how the dominant ways of figuring knowledge about global warming disarticulate that knowledge from the trauma those figurations both represent and reproduce, and by which they remain inhabited and haunted. Its early chapters consider that process in representations of climate change across a range of disciplines and throughout the public sphere, including Al Gores An Inconvenient Truth, Barack Obamas speeches and climate plans, and the 2015 Paris Agreement. Later chapters focus on how literary representations especially, for the most part, participate in such disarticulations, and on how, in grappling with the representational difficulties at the climate crisiss heart, some works of fiction—among them Cormac McCarthys The Road and Russell Hobans Riddley Walker—work against that normalized rhetorical violence. The book closes with a meditation centered on the dream of the burning child Freud sketches in The Interpretation of Dreams.Highlighting the existential stakes of the ways we think and write about the climate, Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change aims to offer an unfamiliar place from which to engage the astonishing quiescence of our ecocidal present. This book will be essential reading for academics and students of psychoanalysis, environmental humanities, trauma studies, literature, and environmental studies, as well as activists and others drawn to thinking about the climate crisis. Author Biography Lee Zimmerman is Professor of English at Hofstra University, USA, and editor of the journal Twentieth-Century Literature. Details ISBN 0367355566 ISBN-13 9780367355562 Title Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change Author Lee Zimmerman Format Hardcover Year 2020 Pages 144 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd GE_Item_ID:130336769; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9780367355562
Book Title: Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
Publication Name: Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change : Literature, Psychoanalysis and Denial
Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Subject: Movements / Psychoanalysis, Mental Health, Social Psychology, Subjects & Themes / Politics
Publication Year: 2020
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Lee Zimmerman
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Psychology
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover