Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time – Book Launch

Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time

Edited by Tom Lynch, Susan Naramore Maher, Drucilla Wall, and O. Alan Weltzien. 

(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017)

Following an introduction by Dr Louis de Paor, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway, the volume will be launched by Professor Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame.

In response to the growing scale and complexity of environmental threats, this volume collects articles, essays, personal narratives, and poems by more than forty authors in conversation about ‘thinking continental’—connecting local and personal landscapes to universal systems and processes—to articulate the concept of a global or planetary citizenship.

Reckoning with the larger matrix of biome, region, continent, hemisphere, ocean, and planet has become necessary as environmental challenges require the insights not only of scientists but also of poets, humanists, and social scientists. Thinking Continental braids together abstract approaches with strands of narrative and poetry, showing how our imaginations can encompass the planetary while also being true to our own concrete life experiences in the here and now.

You are welcome to join us for the launch of Thinking Continental where writers and scholars such as Nessa Cronin, Susan Millar Dumars, Tom Lynch, Susan Naramore Maher, Joan McBreen, Barry Johnston, Fabiana Dimpflmeier and Drucilla Wall, will read from their contributions to the volume.

http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/university-of-nebraska-press/9780803299580/

For further information contact: Dr Nessa Cronin nessa.cronin@nuigalway.ie