In this Book
- Facing It: Epiphany and Apocalypse in the New Nature
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Texas A&M University Press
summary
Blending memoir, cultural history, and a literary perspective, Facing It bears witness to controversies like Tellico and Chernobyl, global warming and local drought. But rather than merely drowning readers in waves of ecological angst, M. Jimmie Killingsworth seeks alternative images and episodes to invoke presence without crippling the hope for survival and sustenance in places and communities of value.
In deft, highly accessible prose, Killingsworth takes the reader through a Cold-War childhood, an adolescence colored by anti-war and ecological activism, and an adulthood darkened by terrorism and climate change. Inviting us on walks through tame suburbias (riddled with environmental abuse) and wild deserts and mountains (shadowed by industrial development), he celebrates the survival of natural beauty and people living close to the earth while questioning truisms associated with both economic advancement and environmental purity. Above all, this book invites the reader to face it: to look with wide-open eyes on a new nature that will never be the same, but that continues to offer opportunities for renewal and advancement of life.
In deft, highly accessible prose, Killingsworth takes the reader through a Cold-War childhood, an adolescence colored by anti-war and ecological activism, and an adulthood darkened by terrorism and climate change. Inviting us on walks through tame suburbias (riddled with environmental abuse) and wild deserts and mountains (shadowed by industrial development), he celebrates the survival of natural beauty and people living close to the earth while questioning truisms associated with both economic advancement and environmental purity. Above all, this book invites the reader to face it: to look with wide-open eyes on a new nature that will never be the same, but that continues to offer opportunities for renewal and advancement of life.
Table of Contents
Download Full Book
- Overture. End of a World
- pp. 1-10
- 2. Ecology Then: The Lake of Tears
- pp. 35-64
- 3. Dispelling Déjà Vu, Part One
- pp. 65-100
- 4. Dispelling Déjà Vu, Part Two
- pp. 101-132
- 5. Defying Apocalypse
- pp. 133-156
- 8. Epiphany Matters
- pp. 209-234
- 10. The Presence of Roadkill
- pp. 263-284
- Reprise. World's End: Seeing and Sustenance
- pp. 285-294
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 295-296
- Bibliography
- pp. 297-308
Additional Information
ISBN
9781623491772
Related ISBN(s)
9781623491451
MARC Record
OCLC
890674548
Pages
256
Launched on MUSE
2014-09-16
Language
English
Open Access
No