As a pioneer in econarratology, Erin James has been recently devoting herself to bridging the gap between ecocriticism and narrative theory. In her 2015 work The Storyworld Accord: Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives, she initiated econarratology to analyze narratives with environmental allusions within a postcolonial framework. In this book, Narrative in the Anthropocene, she delves deeper into this line of research by identifying and categorizing innovative narrative structures that represent the world of the Anthropocene to extend her econarratological project.
The volume builds on her earlier analysis of narratives in the Anthropocene in an eponymous essay in Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology (2020). Contrary to the call of some scholars in environmental humanities for new narratives to represent the changing world and the distrust of some other scholars in posthumanism that narrative cannot adequately represent the Anthropocene, James offers a third direction to narrative and the Anthropocene—“one...
