Haunting the Way in New Materialist Ecocriticism. Book review of Spectrality and Survivance. Living the Anthropocene

(Grech, M., 2022)

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Sam Le Butt, University of Bristol

Sam Le Butt (she/her) is an SWW DTP funded PhD researcher in English Literature and  Environmental Humanities at the University of Bristol and University of Southampton. Her research focuses on the entanglements of ecocriticism and monstrosity, using feminist and postcolonial materialist ecocritical theories to uncover how monstrous bodies narrate ecological crises in contemporary literature. She is also a fiction writer, collage artist, and workshop leader.

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2023-07-31

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Vol. 8 (2023): Eighth issue

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