Humanity's Footprint: Reading Rings of Saturn and Palestinian Walks in an Anthropocene Era

Kennedy, Rosanne

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Humanity's Footprint: Reading Rings of Saturn and Palestinian Walks in an Anthropocene Era

Date

2012

Authors

Kennedy, Rosanne

Publisher

University of Hawaii Press

Abstract

Through readings of two "walking memoirs" - W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn and Raja Shehadeh's Palestinian Walks - this article considers the implications of the geological concept of the Anthropocene era for the field of life writing studies and its