IPP KNL | Prof. Dr. Jan Rupp (JLU): "Figurations of World Writing and Environmental Memory in Literatures of the Global South"
IPP 20th Anniversary Keynote Lecture Series
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- IPP KNL | Prof. Dr. Jan Rupp (JLU): "Figurations of World Writing and Environmental Memory in Literatures of the Global South"
- 2022-05-25T14:00:00+02:00
- 2022-05-25T16:00:00+02:00
- IPP 20th Anniversary Keynote Lecture Series
This lecture will explore figurations of environmental memory in literatures of the Global South for the particular insights they offer into today's global climate crisis. It will build on the intersection between cultural narratology and postcolonial ecocriticism, highlighted by recent work on the ecological and ethical dimensions of storyworlds, as well as on their potential for cross-cultural understanding. Works from the Global South frequently elaborate on distant spatiotemporal scales, allowing readers to gauge central long-term as well as world-encompassing developments of anthropogenic change. Emerging from climate zones in which the current environmental crisis is most keenly felt, these works retrieve fundamental ecological insights that may sensitize readers everywhere to the planet's precarious present, and thus help work towards ensuring a viable future. Their depiction of wide-ranging environmental memories can be seen to offer a blueprint against lingering amnesia, as issues of environmental justice and the challenge of generating a shared commitment to the world loom large.
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