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Description: Unseasonable by Sarah Dimick In Unseasonable, Sarah Dimick links accounts of shifting seasons across the globe, tracing how knowledge of climate change is constructed, conveyed, and amplified through literature. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description As climate change alters seasons around the globe, literature registers and responds to shifting environmental time. A writer and a fisher track the distribution of beach trash in Chennai, chronicling disruptions in seasonal winds and currents along the Bay of Bengal. An essayist in the northeastern United States observes that maple sap flows earlier now, prompting him to reflect on gender and seasons of transition. Poets affiliated with small island nations arrive in Paris for the United Nations climate summit, revamping the occasional poem to attest to intensifying storm seasons across the Pacific. In Unseasonable, Sarah Dimick links these accounts of shifting seasons across the globe, tracing how knowledge of climate change is constructed, conveyed, and amplified via literature. She documents how the unseasonable reverberates through environmentally privileged and environmentally precarious communities. In chapters ranging from Henry David Thoreaus journals to Alexis Wrights depiction of Australias catastrophic bushfires, from classical Tamil poetry to repeat photography, Dimick illustrates how seasonal rhythms determine what flourishes and what perishes. She contends that climate injustice is an increasingly temporal issue, unfolding not only along the axes of who and where but also in relation to when. Amid misaligned and broken rhythms, attending to the shared but disparate experience of the unseasonable can realign or sharpen solidarities within the climate crisis. Author Biography Sarah Dimick is assistant professor of English at Northwestern University. Table of Contents Introduction: Climate ArrhythmiasPhenological Literature and Media1. Phenological Writing and the Composite Year2. Repeat Photography During the Great AccelerationUnseasonable Novels3. Urban Phenology and Monsoon Realism4. Climate Fiction and the UnprecedentedRhythm and Environmental Practice5. Occasional Poetry in Stressed Times6. Keeping TimeEpilogue: More Habits Than DreamsAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex Review Unseasonable is a bold, revelatory book—environmental humanities scholarship at its very finest. Sarah Dimick blends her humanities expertise with an attentiveness to the science of rapid climate change in a work that is global and interdisciplinary in reach. She astutely maps how climate breakdowns disturbance of seasonal norms unsettles literary and cultural forms. With rare eloquence and conceptual originality, Dimick demonstrates how climate arrhythmia is altering the baseline rhythms of aesthetic forms. Unseasonable is a profound meditation on the altered meanings—in the biophysical and aesthetic realms—of environmental time. A tour de force. -- Rob Nixon, author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the PoorSarah Dimicks Unseasonable contributes fine-grained literary analysis and historical insight to a question pursued by the foremost scholars of the climate humanities (Mike Hulme, Kyle Powys Whyte): how climate crisis denaturalizes colonial or global notions of time. Beautiful writing, a personal and yet authoritative voice, and keen clarity mark this exceptional book. -- Stephanie LeMenager, professor of English and environmental studies, University of OregonIn this moving and urgent book, Sarah Dimick leads readers through a literary and phenological analysis of climate crisis. Taking the seasons as the rhythms by which we come to know our places in the world, she shows us how arrhythmias have come to disrupt what was once predictable, translatable, and reliable. Traversing the local and the global, the privileged and the vulnerable, the poetic and the pragmatic, Unseasonable names the unease of our times: confused migrations, early blooms, and coastal floods as they are translated into the collective memories we keep as environmental poem and prose. -- Hiilei Hobart, author of Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian RefreshmentAfter reading Unseasonable, you cannot but see your local environments as arrhythmic and out of seasonal joint. Dimicks deft readings offer a complex vocabulary for capturing these novel "pulses" of environmental time and powerfully remind readers that literature cements seasonality in collective memory now as it has for ages. As climate crisis and literature encode new memories, we need—and Dimick provides—better accounts of the "when" of climate justice. -- Heather Houser, author of Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data Details ISBN0231209258 Author Sarah Dimick Publisher Columbia University Press Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780231209250 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-10-08 Imprint Columbia University Press Subtitle Climate Change in Global Literatures Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Illustrations 11 b&w illustrations US Release Date 2024-10-08 ISBN-10 0231209258 UK Release Date 2024-10-08 Audience Professional & Vocational DEWEY 809.9336 Pages 328 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161502891;

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