This essay reads the decomposition of the human corpse in Jim Crace’s novel Being Dead as an expression of active, vital, agential, and transformative inter-species interaction. Affirming the creative possibilities of putrefaction, my analysis of Crace’s necro-ecological narrative emphasizes the vitality of death through the entangled interactions of organisms both human and non-human, living and dead.
This is an interview conducted with Astrida Neimanis, Canada Research Chair of Feminist Environmental Humanities at University of British Columbia, Okanagan. It examines the "hydro-feminist" turn in critical theory and its potential value for thinking about coastline encounters. Neimanis also comments on critical-creative practices, critiques of the Anthropocene, and how the environmental and blue humanities will meet the demands of environmental crisis.
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