ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on global literary narratives that investigate twenty-first-century understandings of home in the light of anthropogenic climate change and ecosystemic disruption. It traces links between new materialist thinking and activist poetry that challenges humanist understandings of a “planetary home.” Foregrounding the constitutive role of nonhuman processes in earth systems functioning, it shows how such scholarly and literary works attend to the deep time of geological processes, which predate and will outlast humans for near-unimaginable duration.
