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Facing it : epiphany and apocalypse in the new nature / M. Jimmie Killingsworth.
- Title
- Facing it : epiphany and apocalypse in the new nature / M. Jimmie Killingsworth.
- Author
- Killingsworth, M. Jimmie.
- Publication
- College Station, Texas : Texas A&M University Press, 2014.
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- Description
- viii, 323 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
- 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." -- Publisher's description.
- Series Statement
- The seventh generation: survival, sustainability, sustenance in a new nature
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Seventh generation.
- Alternative Title
- Facing it : epiphany and apocalypse in the new nature
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- History
- Autobiographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Overture. End of a world -- Influence and confluence: family, nature, war -- Ecology then: the lake of tears -- Dispelling déjà vu, part one -- Dispelling déjà vu, part two -- Defying apocalypse -- Apocalypse redux and the fate of sustainability -- No illusions, no fantasy, no melodrama: the legacy of Rachel Carson -- Epiphany matters -- Imagination wild and tame: the smell of money -- The presence of roadkill -- Reprise. World's end: seeing and sustenance.
- ISBN
- 9781623491451 (pbk. (with flaps) : alk. paper)
- 1623491452 (pbk. (with flaps) : alk. paper)
- 9781623491772 (e-book)
- 1623491770 (e-book)
- LCCN
- ^^2014015254
- OCLC
- 879642416
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library