Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination

by Nicole Seymour

In Strange Natures, Nicole Seymour investigates the ways in which contemporary queer fictions offer insight on environmental issues through their performance of a specifically queer understanding of nature, the nonhuman, and environmental degradation. By drawing upon queer theory and ecocriticism, Seymour examines how contemporary queer fictions extend their critique of "natural" categories of gender and sexuality to the nonhuman natural world,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252079167
• ISBN13: 9780252079160
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"