{"product_id":"transscalar-critique-9781399506472","title":"Transscalar Critique","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe history of the contemporary is a history of crisis ? most centrally, the twinned crises of environmental destruction and anti-Black violence. \u003ci\u003eTransscalar Critique\u003c\/i\u003e argues that contemporary Black literature navigates this crisis by taking a transscalar approach, understanding crisis as working on multiple scales simultaneously, from the molecular to the geological, from the economic to the aesthetic. As a consequence, this book proposes transscalar critique as a mode of literary criticism. Organized around specific crises and authors, \u003ci\u003eTransscalar Critique \u003c\/i\u003eargues that crisis offers a window into how competing analytical, artistic, and planetary frameworks collide. In a moment of crisis, questions of race, geology, politics, epistemology, and ontology are brought into focus in surprising and unexpected ways and \u003ci\u003eTransscalar Critique\u003c\/i\u003e uses the literary, critical, and public policy responses to these events to reveal connections between the human and nonhuman worlds.","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50005700542807,"sku":"9781399506472","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781399506472.jpg?v=1739817993","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/transscalar-critique-9781399506472","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}