Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival

by Wai Chee Dimock

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Vulnerability. We see it everywhere. In once permanent institutions. In runaway pandemics. In democracy itself. And most frighteningly, in ecosystems with no sustainable future. Against these large-scale hazards of climate change, what can literature teach us? This is the question Wai Chee Dimock asks in Weak Planet, proposing a way forward, inspired by works that survive through kinship with strangers and with the nonhuman world.

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Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:022647707X

ISBN13:9780226477077

Release Date:December 2020

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.94 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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