The Wounded Earth: Narratives of Trauma, Ecology, and Memory

This edited volume, The Wounded Earth: Narratives of Trauma, Ecology & Memory, gathers twelve interdisciplinary chapters that critically examine the entanglements of environmental degradation, historical trauma, and cultural memory across global literary traditions. The volume investigates non-Western literary traditions, including Sinophone diaspora narratives, Arabic children's literature that addresses environmental consciousness, and contemporary Chinese works that employ ethnographic modes to document indigenous ecological knowledge while demonstrating literature's capacity to articulate experiences that exceed instrumental reason. Spanning European, East Asian, Middle Eastern, and North American contexts, these writings collectively argue that narrative constitutes an essential site where environmental ethics and historical reckoning converge within the planetary condition of the Anthropocene. Ultimately, Volume VII of the Contemporary Studies on Language and Literature series positions literary study as indispensable to understanding how ecological relationality might be reimagined within the disabled ecologies of our wounded earth.