Transscalar Critique: Climate, Blackness, Crisis

by Henry Ivry

The history of the contemporary is a history of crisis - most centrally, the twinned crises of environmental destruction and anti-Black violence. Transscalar Critique argues that contemporary Black literature navigates this crisis by taking a transscalar approach, understanding crisis as working on multiple scales simultaneously, from the molecular to the geological, from the economic to the aesthetic. As a consequence, this book proposes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399506463
• ISBN13: 9781399506465
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"