On natural cultural memory in anthropocene literature – new essay by Gabriele Dürbeck

In the conference proceedings Germanistik im 21. Jahrhundert: Verbindungen - Verknüpfungen – Vernetzungen (German Studies in the 21st Century: Connections - Links - Networks), Gabriele Dürbeck's contribution presents conceptual considerations on natural-cultural memory as an extension of memory studies in the Anthropocene against the backdrop of ecocriticism
and tests these considerations using four examples from contemporary literature: Robert Macfarlane's travelogue Underland. A Deep Time Journey (2019), Jan Röhnert's essay Vom Gehen im Karst (2021), Silke Scheuermann's poetry cycle “Zweite Schöpfung” (2014), and Mikael Vogel's bestiary Dodos auf der Flucht (2018).

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