Literature and sustainability

Abstract

Deep sustainability: ecopoetics, enjoyment and ecstatic hospitality-Kate Rigby 52 4 Recycling materials, recycling lives: cardboard publishers in Latin America-Lucy Bell 76 5 Sustainability after extinction: on last animals and future bison-Joshua Schuster 97 6 Th e twilight of the Anthropocene: sustaining literature-Claire Colebrook PART II: Reading sustainability 137 7 Collapse, resilience, stability and sustainability in Margaret Atwood ' s MaddAddam trilogy-Dana Phillips 8 'Th e shadow of the future made all the diff erence': sustainability in Kim Stanley Robinson ' s Science in the Capital trilogy-Chris Pak Contents vi Contents 9 Th e unsustainable aesthetics of sustainability: the sense of an ending in Jeanette Winterson ' s Th e Stone Gods-Adeline Johns-Putra 10 A modest proposal for a less natural lifestyle: the paradoxes of sustainability and Michel Houellebecq ' s Th e Possibility of an Island-Hannes Bergthaller 11 Jorie Graham ' s Sea Change : the poetics of sustainability and the politics of what we ' re sustaining-Matthew Griffi ths 12 Circles unrounded: sustainability, subject and necessity

Literature and sustainability

“…Its instrumentalist demeanour can bring it into confl ict with the deeper green standing of many ecocritics ( Bergthaller 2010 ;O'Grady 2003 ). A further diffi culty is that, due in part to sustainability ' s slipperiness as a term, it is vulnerable to co-option Bloomfi eld 2015 ;LeMenager and Foote 2012 ;Nardizzi 2013 ;Squire and Jarvis 2015 ), whereby it is appropriated to legitimise corporate or political endeavour -to include, as Stephanie LeMenager and Stephanie Foote put it, that which 'got us into trouble in the fi rst place' ( 2012 : 572; see also Nardizzi 2013 ). Such problems, as Lynn Keller observes, may come down to a question of 'sustainability of what and for whom?…”