Jarvis Christina - Lucky Mud & Other Foma A Field Guide To Kurt Vonnegut's Environmentalism And Planetary Citizenship - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Vonnegut's major apocalyptic trio - Cat's Cradle Slapstick and Galapagos - prompt broad global national and specieslevel thinking about environmental issues through dramatic and fantastic scenarios. This book tells the story of the origins and legacy of what Kurt Vonnegut understood as 'planetary citizenship and explores key roots influences literary techniques and artistic expressions of his interest in environmental activism through his writing. Vonnegut saw writing itself as an act of good citizenship as a way of 'poisoning the minds of young people 'with humanity to encourage them to make a better world. Often that literary activism meant addressing real social and environmental problems - polluted water soil and air; the plasticization of cultures and lives; racial and economic injustice; isolating and dehumanizing technologies; and lives and landscapes desolated by war. Vonnegut's remedies took many forms from the redemptive power of the arts to artificial extended families to vital communities and engaged democracies. Reminding us of our shared connections as humans as Earthlings as stardust Lucky Mud helps fans scholars and book lovers of all kinds experience how Vonnegut's writings offer whole Earth interstellar and specieslevel perspectives and purposely challenge readers to think create and love.
Title: Lucky Mud & Other Foma A Field Guide To Kurt Vonnegut's Environmentalism And Planetary Citizenship
Author(s): Jarvis Christina
Publisher: Seven Stories Press U. S.
Barcode: 9781644213919
Pages: 368 Pages, 1 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 10/1/2024
Category: Autobiography: Literary