Out Now! Anthropocene Affordances (Lena Pfeifer)

Lena Pfeifer

Anthropocene Affordances: Scale, Narrative Form, and the Human in US-American Literature.

Bielefeld: transcript, 2025.

The current historical moment, often referred to as the Anthropocene, is defined by profound human influence on the planetary system. Anthropocene Affordances explores how contemporary US-American literature negotiates the political, ethical, and epistemological challenges posed by the Anthropocene. Connecting new formalist approaches with theories of scale, the study proposes the concept of “Anthropocene affordances” as a new methodological framework for analyzing narrative responses to the recent ecological crisis that reconfigure conventional forms and narrative strategies to critically discuss the role of the human as a geological force.

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