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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Usher, Phillip John
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| Publisher: |
Fordham University Press
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| Date: |
03/05/2019
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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Exterranean concerns the extraction of
stuff from the Earth, a process in which matter goes from being sub- to exterranean. By shifting emphasis from emission to extraction, Usher reorients our perspective away from Earthrise-like globes and shows what is gained by opening the planet to depths within. Both historicist and speculative in approach,
Exterranean eschews the self-congratulatory claims of posthumanism and lays the groundwork for a comparative ecocriticism that reaches across periods and languages. congratulatory claims of posthumanism and lays the groundwork for a comparative ecocriticism that reaches across periods and languages.
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