“In the early Anthropocene”: Witnessing Environmental Emergency in Kathleen Jamie’s Essays
The spectre of the Anthropocene haunts Kathleen Jamie’s Surfacing (2019). Already appearing in the opening paragraph of the first essay, the term announces the presence of some other time, marking an ambiguous temporality of things past and things yet to come. It is there in the rapidly eroding coas...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:a2ef49c3291d4f11865e5b54b055777d 2023-05-15T15:43:50+02:00 “In the early Anthropocene”: Witnessing Environmental Emergency in Kathleen Jamie’s Essays Monika SZUBA 2021-05-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.4000/erea.12183 https://doaj.org/article/a2ef49c3291d4f11865e5b54b055777d EN FR eng fre Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) http://journals.openedition.org/erea/12183 https://doaj.org/toc/1638-1718 1638-1718 doi:10.4000/erea.12183 https://doaj.org/article/a2ef49c3291d4f11865e5b54b055777d E-REA, Vol 18, Iss 2 (2021) Kathleen Jamie spectrality haunting temporality loss care English language PE1-3729 Social sciences (General) H1-99 article 2021 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.4000/erea.12183 2022-12-31T13:18:43Z The spectre of the Anthropocene haunts Kathleen Jamie’s Surfacing (2019). Already appearing in the opening paragraph of the first essay, the term announces the presence of some other time, marking an ambiguous temporality of things past and things yet to come. It is there in the rapidly eroding coastline that, on the one hand, reveals material traces of a long-lost culture, and on the other, disrupts human lives and augurs an imminent threat of cultural discontinuity. Bearing witness to environmental emergency, Jamie avoids solastalgic representations, revealing layers of inapparent meanings. An immediate consequence of climate breakdown epitomised in tundra fires, melting permafrost and rising sea levels, ecosystem distress coalesces with positive social processes as a damaged culture becomes revitalised. The essay focuses on the discussion of the representation of climate crisis, and that which surfaces, or emerges in its wake, and how it effects irreversible change. It proposes to examine Jamie’s depiction of loss and resilience that is both melancholic and hopeful, where grief blends with expectation of renewal, reverberating in the image of the Bering Sea merging with the American continent. Finally, it aims to explore the language of Surfacing, which records environmental emergency and witnesses its consequences to the non-human as well as human world. Article in Journal/Newspaper Bering Sea permafrost Tundra Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Bering Sea The Spectre ENVELOPE(-150.167,-150.167,-86.050,-86.050) E-rea 18.2 |
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The spectre of the Anthropocene haunts Kathleen Jamie’s Surfacing (2019). Already appearing in the opening paragraph of the first essay, the term announces the presence of some other time, marking an ambiguous temporality of things past and things yet to come. It is there in the rapidly eroding coastline that, on the one hand, reveals material traces of a long-lost culture, and on the other, disrupts human lives and augurs an imminent threat of cultural discontinuity. Bearing witness to environmental emergency, Jamie avoids solastalgic representations, revealing layers of inapparent meanings. An immediate consequence of climate breakdown epitomised in tundra fires, melting permafrost and rising sea levels, ecosystem distress coalesces with positive social processes as a damaged culture becomes revitalised. The essay focuses on the discussion of the representation of climate crisis, and that which surfaces, or emerges in its wake, and how it effects irreversible change. It proposes to examine Jamie’s depiction of loss and resilience that is both melancholic and hopeful, where grief blends with expectation of renewal, reverberating in the image of the Bering Sea merging with the American continent. Finally, it aims to explore the language of Surfacing, which records environmental emergency and witnesses its consequences to the non-human as well as human world. |
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