{"product_id":"the-weird-south-ecologies-of-unknowing-in-postplantation-literature-paperback","title":"The Weird South: Ecologies of Unknowing in Postplantation Literature - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMelanie Benson Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDoug Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do we read southern literature in a postplantation, postregional, and posthuman moment? How do we address the urgent contemporary catastrophes of the Anthropocene in these newly leveled landscapes? Put simply, how do we parse the levels of human responsibility--both for apocalypse and for deliverance--in contexts where settler-colonial and racial capitalist histories dramatically shape our reality? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReading modern and contemporary southern literary texts from a variety of perspectives, these lectures engage the new materialist, object-oriented ontologies that critique and decenter human agency while uncovering the lasting, determinative, haunting realities of humanity's detention within what Timothy Morton calls the \"weird\" web of our entwined social, racial, economic, and natural ecologies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a concept in the burgeoning conversation about Anthropocenic disaster and climate emergency, the \"weird\" is a powerful way to conceptualize not just human hubris but also humility: we are no different from, no more powerful than, any other living or inanimate objects--neither the organisms that take up residence in our bodies nor the myriad things that we imagine we create, fashion, patrol, and control.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMELANIE BENSON TAYLOR is Professor of English \u0026amp; Creative Writing and of Native American \u0026amp; Indigenous Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge History of Native American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and The Norton Critical Edition of\u003ci\u003e Faulkner's Light in August\u003c\/i\u003e, and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Indian in American Southern Literature\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eReconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eDisturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002 \u003c\/i\u003e(both Georgia).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 126\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43340839223385,"sku":"9780820373843","price":29.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/6465\/9545\/files\/52BR_lqJ1D9780820373843.webp?v=1779448131","url":"https:\/\/warrenssanctuaryofthemind.myshopify.com\/products\/the-weird-south-ecologies-of-unknowing-in-postplantation-literature-paperback","provider":"Warren's sanctuary of the mind","version":"1.0","type":"link"}