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The Literature of Sustainability & Resilience<\/h2>\n

Time & Location<\/h3>\n

MWF per. 4, Turlington 2333
\nOffice hours (Spring 2026): 4105 Turlington Hall, M, 2\u20134 PM, and by appt.<\/p>\n

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Moominpappa, Moominmamma, Moomintroll, and Sniff find their new home in Moominvalley. Tove Jansson, “The Moomins and the Great Flood\u201d (1945).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cDystopia is for losers\u201d \u2013 Doug Henwood*<\/p>\n

This course takes as its founding premises two unassailable facts. First, we live in a time of increasing environmental instability, mass extinction, food insecurity, forced migration, and social and political unrest fostered by climate change. Second, the human literary, artistic, and ethical imaginations are among our species\u2019 most powerful and adaptive responses to the planetary realities of the twenty-first century and the possibility of a more just, sustainable, and resilient future for all living beings.<\/p>\n

We will read widely from an established and emerging canon of literary nonfiction, fiction, memoir, and poetry that addresses the perils and vitality of the late Anthropocene, the geological epoch marked by the influences of humans on the Earth\u2019s planetary ecosystems.<\/p>\n

This course qualifies as a 3-credit Humanities core course for UF\u2019s Bachelor of Arts in Sustainability Studies.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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* From his foreword to Sasha Lilley, et al., Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth<\/em>. PM Press, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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