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Chromatic Ecologies: Entangled Natures through the Colour Turn

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Chromatic Ecologies: Entangled Natures through the Colour Turn

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This volume explores the relationship between colours, humans, and nonhumans in terms of dynamic material and informational exchanges in nature, addressing at the same time the idea that environmental posthumanism critiques anthropocentrism by emphasizing our enmeshment in a vibrant and agentic relationship with the nonhuman world.

The volume brings together different voices across the globe and lays the groundwork to frame a “colour turn” in the environmental humanities and posthumanities, emphasizing agency and significance of nonhuman entities through a pluralistic outlook.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

PART I
Chromatic Awareness: Seeing Otherwise

Chapter 1
Thinking with Iridescence: becoming responsive to contingent ambiguities and staying with the shimmer
Francesca Lewis

Chapter 2
Colour Eco-Phenomenology in Odysseus Elytis' The Axion Esti
Nikoleta Zampaki

Chapter 3
The Semiotic Hues of Nature's Palette: Intermedial Symbiotic Colouring in John Ruskin's Cultural Practices of the Picturesque
Asunción López-Varela Azcárate

Chapter 4
Deterritorializing Physis in Lovecraft's “The Colour Out of Space”
Luke Monks-Quinane

PART II
Chromatic Conflict: Colonialism and Extraction

Chapter 5
Colouring in Polar Narratives of Ice
Courtney B. Ryan

Chapter 6
The Weight of Black: A Chromatic Reading of Central European Mining Literature
Anna Seidel

Chapter 7
Ecological Consciousness in Black and White: Non-Human Intelligence in Ciro Guerra's Embrace of the Serpent
Tara Thomson

PART III
Chromatic Repair: Justice and Decolonial Care

Chapter 8
Hues of Justice: The Restorative Power of Colour Eco-Narratives in Repairing Environmental Harm
Felicity Tepper

Chapter 9
Visualizing Indigenous Girlhoods: Environmental Graphic Novels by Women from the Global South
Victoria Jara

PART IV
Chromatic Ecologies in Multisensory and Ecodelic Futures

Chapter 10
Sound-colours of fertile and barren landscapes
D Ferrett

Chapter 11
Mind flowers: phytochemical imaginaries in ecodelic garden
Tessa Laird

Conclusion

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Jun 10 2027
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Pages 202
ISBN 9798216551249
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 13
Dimensions 229 x 152 mm
Series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Peggy Karpouzou

Peggy Karpouzou is Associate Professor of Theory o…

Anthology Editor

Scott Slovic

Scott Slovic was the founding president of the Ass…

Anthology Editor

Nikoleta Zampaki

Nikoleta Zampaki is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Dep…

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