Essays about: "ecological uncanny"

Found 1 essay containing the words ecological uncanny.

  1. 1. Staying, Sane, on a Planet Dying Fast : Art and Eco-Psychology in Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Sam Hammarberg; [2023]
    Keywords : Ecocriticism; mental health; solastalgia; eco-PTSD; ecological uncanny; Vonnegut;

    Abstract : This essay analyzes Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions (1973) in relation to eco-psychology. First, Dwayne Hoover is diagnosed with solastalgia; second, the narrator is shown to suffer from ecological PTSD; and, lastly, the novel is considered in light of the ecological uncanny and the ecological homecoming narrative. READ MORE