The Environment in Sustainable American Studies

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Frank Mehring (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-01687-8 (ISBN)

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The Environment in Sustainable American Studies offers a multifaceted exploration of the environment within American Studies, featuring contributions that scrutinize the intricate relationship between culture, power, and the environment. This book presents a cutting-edge exploration of the current landscape of environmental American studies in transatlantic perspectives. It investigates this field through diverse lenses, including interdisciplinary, transnational, and activist perspectives with scholars and artists from both sides of the Atlantic. Structured in four sections, it opens with an in-depth analysis of ecological poetics intertwined with settler colonialism in regional fictions, revealing the nuanced complexities of environmental interconnectedness in literature. Further topics covered include environmental justice, Indigenous activism, the role of humanities and the arts in addressing climate change, the impact of flora and fauna in the Anthropocene, including examinations of literature's engagement with environmental concerns, as well as the integration of local and global ecologies within the American Studies curriculum. The book concludes with a section dedicated to art and climate change, where artists, curators, and activists provide critical insights into how art can reorient our focus toward pressing environmental challenges and inspire transformative shifts in our ways of living. Providing a holistic approach on the environment in American studies, this book is suitable for students, researchers and academics across a range of disciplines including American studies, literary studies, environmental studies, cultural studies, and politics.

Autor

Frank Mehring is Professor of American Studies at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. His research focuses on cultural transfer, migration, intermediality, and the global circulation of American music. A founding member of the EAAS Digital Studies Network and the journal AmLit—American Literatures, he has received several distinctions for his scholarship, including the EAAS Rob Kroes Award. Frank currently serves as President of the Netherlands American Studies Association, sits on the board of the European Association for American Studies, and acts as Regional Director of the German Atlantic Association. His major publications include Sphere Melodies (2003), The Democratic Gap (2014), The Soundtrack of Liberation (2015), Sound and Vision: Intermediality and American Music (2018, with Erik Redling), The Multicultural Modernism of Winold Reiss (2022), and Beuys Land (2024, with Gerd Ludwig). Deeply committed to public engagement, Frank has curated concerts featuring Marshall Plan and liberation songs, organized traveling exhibitions, and presented his work on national radio and television.

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Introduction

Frank Mehring

Powered by Nature: The Environment in Sustainable American Studies

I. Ecological Poetics, Culture, and Power

· Michael Boyden

Suspended Agency and Animated Infrastructures in Ling Ma’s Severance

· Nick Selby

Limit and Scale: Robert Creeley’s Ecological Poetics

· Jennifer Cowe

‘We are now in the mountains, and they are in us’: Solastalgia, Manifest Destiny and the Contemporary Ideological Battle for America’s Environmental Legacy

· Doro Wiese

Dwelling upon a Remembered Earth. Relational Aesthetics in N. Scott Momaday’s Earth Keeper (2020)

II: Environmental Justice and American Studies

· Jelte Olthof

“We'll be watching you:” Past, Presence, and Future in Greta Thunberg's Environmental Rhetoric

· Laura De Vos and Marije van Lankveld (Radboud University)

Environmental Activism, Indigenous Survival, and Settler Colonialism: The Unist’ot’en Camp’s Resistance against the Coastal GasLink Pipeline

· Gaetano di Tommaso (Roosevelt Institute of American Studies)

Waterways of Power: Plantations, Oil, and Environmental Justice in the Mississippi River Delta

· Eric J. Sandeen

Mapping the Limits of the Geography of Hope along the Colorado River

III. Sustainable American Studies in the Anthropocene

· Frank Mehring

Grounding Art in Times of Climate Change: Topophilia Reimagined as a Multisensory and Material Practice

· Barrie Blatchford

“The Monkey King” of New York: Henry Trefflich and America’s Mid-Century Mania for Exotic Pets

· Scott T. Zukowski

An Ecocritical Approach to Poe’s “Murders in the Rue Morgue”

· Leonor María Martínez Serrano

The Wisdom of Trees: Robert Bringhurst on the Persistence of Poetry and the Destruction of the World

IV. Art and Climate Change: A Call to Action

· Daniel Maurice Ziegler and Frank Mehring
Sound Tree: Art and Climate Change on University Campuses

· Anne Berk
Save the Forest! Eco-Art, Activism, and Collective Imagination

· Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Enduring Earth: Imagining Post-Human Futures Through Miniature Landscapes


· Sara Vrugt
100,000 Trees and a Threaded Forest: A Shared Work of Art, Ecology, and Care

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.7.2026
• Reihe/Serie: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
• Zusatzinfo: 15 Halftones, black and white; 15 Illustrations, black and white
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• ISBN-10: 1-041-01687-5 / 1041016875
• ISBN-13: 978-1-041-01687-8 / 9781041016878
• Zustand: Neuware