Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late fourteenth-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. In this poem, Sir Gawain accepts a challenge from a mysterious green warrior. In a struggle to uphold his oath along this quest, Gawain demonstrates chivalry, loyalty, and ......
How the US Food System Cultivates, Conceals, and Consumes Its Violence
Geographer Stian Rice demonstrates how the current solutions to fix our broken food system miss the point. He argues that our food system isn't broken--in fact, it's working just fine as a capitalist system that generates wealth--and that the harms it inflicts are intentional. Elsewhere examines the 250-year history of the US food system, ......
A mother's memoir that reckons with her son's descent into severe mental illness. What appears to be substance use disorder in high school later becomes a dual diagnosis as bipolar disorder emerges. Her son soon grows disillusioned with prescribed pharmaceuticals and participates in a residential treatment program that assists people in forgoing ......
The first major study of contemporary Nordic petrofiction. Through a variety of cultural texts, including the Nordic noir mystery Smila's Sense of Snow, Rosenbaek Reetz exposes the cultural, political, and environmental tensions in which green frontier ideas must coexist with the ongoing reliance on oil and gas and critiques the paradox of Nordic ......
Muriel Rukeyser has many faces: poet, biographer, theorist, playwright, novelist, story-writer, filmmaker, translator, ethnographer, and innovator of social, documentary poetics; feminist, queer, Jewish, single mother, and social justice activist. Yet above all, she was a poet. Threaded through her work, politics, and life was the conviction that ......
Power Shift traces recent social and cultural shifts in how we understand and imagine energy, the environment, and the challenges of global warming. Across the globe, the need to transition to renewables has become the guiding reality of our energy present and future, despite continuing resistance to change. But what does this moment of energy ......
And Other Inheritances from the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands
The Yukon Ice Patch Project reveals ancient lives. A road through the boreal forest reads like a map of climate upheaval. Those houses with broken doorknobs-a legacy of government regulation over Indigenous life. Corinna Cook, who was born white on Aak'w Kwaan Tlingit land in Juneau, Alaska, wrestles with the past and future into Canada's Yukon ......
Above the Oxbow is a journey through the tangle of rich narratives surrounding Mount Holyoke, a locally cherished mountain in Western Massachusetts. It explores how visitors have forged connections with the mountain through various activities over the past two centuries. In an accessible blend of storytelling and scholarly analysis, Danielle Raad ......
Petroforms contributes a much-needed theory of form and genre to the cutting-edge field of petrocriticism, itself an offshoot of developments in postcolonial ecocriticism. Studies of resource fiction and inquiries in the energy humanities have recently taken their rightful place as necessary reflections on the role of the literary imagination in ......
