Mussgnug, Florian;
(2022)
Translating Endangered Nonhuman Worlds.
In: Tihanov, Galin, (ed.)
Universal Localities.
(pp. 145-165).
J.B. Metzler: Berlin, Germany.
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Abstract
This chapter approaches inter-species translation through the dual disciplinary lens of world literature and Anthropocene discourse. Both fields are relevant because of their distinctive concern with spatial and temporal knowledge production. The first part of the chapter reflects on the importance of multiscalar complexity in debates about the Anthropocene. The second part engages more specifically with nonhuman animals and with literary practices of interspecies translation. The final part explores methodological similarities between the environmental humanities, the study of work literature, and fictional-world theory. Focusing on the vulnerability and value of human and non-human life on a warming planet, the chapter suggests that the climate emergency must be understood as a dynamic opening: an invitation to re-think categories of place and space, not in terms of eschatological closure, but as a state of protracted uncertainty that necessitates mediation, translation, and new political and epistemic modes.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Translating Endangered Nonhuman Worlds |
| ISBN: | 3662623315 |
| ISBN-13: | 9783662623312 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-662-62332-9 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-62332-9_8c |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Literary Criticism, Human-Animal Studies, Eco-Translation, Anthropocene Studies |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10152126 |
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