Transscalar Critique
Transscalar Critique The history of the contemporary is a history of crisis - most centrally, the twinned crises of environmental destruction and anti-Black violence. As a consequence, this book…
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Transscalar Critique
The history of the contemporary is a history of crisis - most centrally, the twinned crises of environmental destruction and anti-Black violence. As a consequence, this book proposes transscalar critique as a mode of literary criticism. 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.
In a moment of crisis, questions of race, geology, politics, epistemology, and ontology are brought into focus in surprising and unexpected ways and Transscalar Critique uses the literary, critical, Organized around specific crises and authors, Transscalar Critique argues that crisis offers a window into how competing analytical, artistic, and planetary frameworks collide.