Weak Planet
Weak Planet Vulnerability. In once permanent institutions. We see it everywhere. In democracy itself. In runaway pandemics. And most frighteningly, in ecosystems with no sustainable future. Weak…
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Weak Planet
Vulnerability. In once permanent institutions. We see it everywhere.
In democracy itself. In runaway pandemics. 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.Drawing on Native American studies, disability studies, and environmental humanities, Dimock shows how hope can be found not in heroic statements but in incremental and unspectacular teamwork. Reversing the usual focus on hegemonic institutions, she highlights instead incomplete gestures given an afterlife with the help of others.
She looks at Louise Erdrich's and Sherman Alexie's user-amended captivity narratives; nontragic sequels to
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