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Salvage the Bones and The Not Yet: Environmental Crisis Writing of Post-Katrina Literature
XU Hui, JIANG Li-fu
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2024.07.003
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China
After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, literary works related to such a crisis sprouted the southern America, which are known as Post-Katrina Literature. This thesis, taking Salvage the Bones and The Not Yet as examples, scrutinizes how writers respond to the Post-Katrina environmental crisis in different ways. In Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward employs a biographical genre to record the Katrina disaster, thereby, writings serving as a way of healing the psychic trauma of the writer herself; and in The Not Yet, Moira Crone presents a post-natural world by the employment of the Cli-Fi genre. Both writers enrich the tradition of Southern literature as well as American eco-literature.
Post-Katrina Literature, Salvage the Bones, The Not Yet, a biographical genre, the Cli-Fi genre
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, July 2024, Vol. 14, No. 7, 541-552
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