Queer and Environmental Melancholia in American Coming-of-age Fiction: Narratives of Loss and Resistance in the Anthropocene

这个项目考虑了成长文学在人类世的新的意义。当环境成为一个无法挽回的开支和损失的空间时，对青年叛逆和人类成长的描述会发生什么？悲痛如何帮助我们想象关于进步和成年的叙述之外的其他选择？这个项目结合了酷儿理论和关注忧郁拒绝接受生态退化的环境人文科学，为当代生态抗议提供了一个重要的文学背景。它重新定义了美国成长小说的概念，解决了政治阻力和青少年心理健康问题。

This project considers the renewed significance of coming-of-age literature in the Anthropocene. What happens to depictions of youthful rebellion and human growth when the environment has become a space of irretrievable expenditure and loss? And how might grief help us imagine alternatives to narratives of progress and adulthood? Drawing together strands of queer theory and the environmental humanities that focus on the melancholic refusal to accept ecological degradation, this project offers an important literary context for contemporary eco-protest. It reconceptualises American coming-of-age fiction, addressing it to problems of political resistance and adolescent mental health.