Materializing a Geotraumatic and Melancholy Anthropocene
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8124306 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicole M Merola (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 2014 |
| Issue | 83 |
| Pages | 122-132 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Minnesota Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-5667 • E-ISSN: 2157-4189 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00265667-2782315 |
| OpenAlex | W2013521896 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 22 |
This essay considers Jeanette Winterson’s speculative novel The Stone Gods for the literary, formal, and tonal strategies it employs to diagnose and illuminate the material burdens of producing and living in the Anthropocene. Using the geologic tool of stratigraphy in concert with the conceptual tools of geotrauma and melancholy to lever open the novel’s inter- and intratextual palimpsests, I examine the novel’s engagement with a crucial Anthropocene issue: developing tactics for conceptualizing the intermingling of different temporal and spatial scales. I argue that the novel, which uses motifs of storytelling, measuring, repetition, evolution, pollution, love, place, and planet in order to fathom humans as a biosphere-altering geologic agent, ultimately resolves into both a critique of cyclical patterns of anthropogenic socioecological destructiveness and an exemplary theorization of the Anthropocene
Aesthetics · Anthropocene · Art · Biology · Biosphere · Environmental ethics · Literature · Narrative · Storytelling · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction · Ecology · History · Philosophy
Are we now living in the Anthropocene
Queer Ecologies
Ecocriticism
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Petro-Melancholia
Not Symbiosis, Not Now
Ecology without the Present
What on World is the Earth
Cosmopolis
The End of the End of Nature
Sense of Place and Sense of Planet
The Invention of Eco-Futures
Future Shock
Planetary Dysphoria
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,78 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |