“In the early Anthropocene”: Witnessing Environmental Emergency in Kathleen Jamie’s Essays

• Published in: E-rea
• Main Author: SZUBA, Monika
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone 2021
• Subjects: Kathleen Jamie; spectralité; hantise; temporalité; perte; urgence; spectrality; haunting; temporality; loss; care; emergency; Bering Sea; The Spectre; permafrost; Tundra
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/erea/12183

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...