Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vi
4. Introduction: Ecologies of Crisis 1
5. Chapter 1 Crisis Realism: Writing Economically, Thinking Ecologically 43
6. Chapter 2 Global Weirding: Climate Crisis and the Anthropocene Imaginary 76
7. Chapter 3 Transscalar Blackness: Race and the Long Anthropocene 110
8. Chapter 4 Improbable Metaphor: Jesmyn Ward and the Asymmetries of the Anthropocene 140
9. Chapter 5 Unmitigated Blackness: Paul Beatty’s Transscalar Satire 173
10. Works Cited 208
11. Index 222