Reimagining the Anthropocene

<p><em><strong>Reimagining the Anthropocene: Ecological Oceanic and Indigenous Concerns in Contemporary Literature and Culture</strong></em> offers a penetrating exploration of the profound ecological cultural and ethical challenges that define our planetary moment. Bridging literary studies environmental humanities medical humanities and cultural theory this interdisciplinary collection interrogates the Anthropocene not as a monolithic epoch but as a contested terrain shaped by uneven histories vulnerable ecologies and diverse human and non-human entanglements.</p><p>The volume foregrounds how contemporary literature across genres and geographies grapples with ecological crisis oceanic imaginaries indigenous wisdom traditions and the fragile interdependence between humans and the more-than-human world. It reveals how narratives of survival embodiment trauma and resistance function as powerful modes of environmental consciousness-inviting readers to confront the political ethical and spiritual dimensions of life on an altered planet.</p><p>At its core the book asks how storytelling can reorient our understanding of ecological belonging. Through examinations of climate catastrophes oceanic mythopoesis indigenous epistemologies cultural memory gendered and racialized marginalities and the psychological ruptures of a rapidly shifting world the essays collectively chart new pathways for imagining environmental justice sustainable futures and empathetic coexistence.</p><p>Equally attentive to the colonial past and the ecological present the volume underscores the necessity of decolonizing environmental thought and embracing plural modes of knowing. It illuminates how literature becomes a site where ecological grief meets hope where landscapes become archives of memory and where the sea-vast mysterious and unpredictable-emerges as both metaphor and material force shaping human destiny.</p><p>Written for scholars researchers educators and readers invested in climate humanities cultural studies and world literature <em><strong>Reimagining the Anthropocene</strong></em> stands as a timely and compelling contribution to the urgent conversations surrounding environment identity and planetary survival.</p>