Anthropogenic Forms in Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being

Amy Tang • Wesleyan University

October 19 @ 6 P.M.
Zoom Conference: https://wesleyan.zoom.us/j/95004803269

This talk considers how Ruth Ozeki’s novel A Tale for the Time Being responds to some of the conceptual challenges of the Anthropocene, drawing together human and non-human time scales in both theme and form. The novel creates meaningful Transpacific and transhistorical entanglements through images of oceanic gyres, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, World War II, and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, while also drawing on narrative’s most fundamental resource, the story-discourse relation.

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