From Planar Perspectives to a Planetary Poetics

Aeromobility, Technology, and the Environmental Imaginary in Contemporary American Poetry
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dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage445en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue4en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage467en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume61en_US
dc.contributor.authorRauscher, Judith
dc.contributor.editorGerhardt, Christine
dc.contributor.editorGrewe-Volpp, Christa
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-26T11:35:43Z
dc.date.available2022-10-26T11:35:43Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractLate modernity is often associated with the uneven pressures of globalization, increasing technologization, and an intensification of migratory, economic, and cultural flows that alienate the subject, frequently figured as a traveler, from the natural world. Contemporary American poetry, in particular by ethnic poets invested in histories of displacement, explores these ten- sions by evoking travel by plane. Going beyond common themes in poems of flight, these texts interrogate the desire for place-attachment in a highly mobile world, and the peculiar perspec- tives on the natural environment open to the air traveler. In this essay I analyze selected poems about aeromobility from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, arguing that they are not only plane poems but also ‘planetary poems.’ Drawing from recent critical discourses on ‘the planetary,’ I demonstrate how these texts combine considerations of racial, ethnic, and cul- tural difference with ecological sensibilities and thus evoke complex glocal environmental imag- inaries. As a reading of Ed Roberson’s collection To See the Earth Before the End of the World (2010) shows, recent American poems of flight are centrally concerned not only with questions of mobility, but also with the role of technology in our current age of global conflict and envi- ronmental change. Contemporary poetry of aeromobility thus makes possible a (techno-)critical reexamination of traditional, planar perspectives on nonhuman environments and allows for an exploration of the revisionary potential of an eco-ethical, anti-imperialist planetary poetics.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2537
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.issn0340-2827en_US
dc.relation.journalAmerikastudien/American Studiesen_US
dc.rightsL::CC BY-NC-ND 4.0en_US
dc.subject.ddcddc:810en_US
dc.subject.fieldamericanstudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldenvironmentalstudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldliterarystudiesen_US
dc.titleFrom Planar Perspectives to a Planetary Poeticsen_US
dc.title.alternativeAeromobility, Technology, and the Environmental Imaginary in Contemporary American Poetryen_US
dc.title.specialissueEnvironmental Imaginaries on the Move: Nature and Mobility in American Literature and Cultureen_US
dc.typearticleen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
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