Description

• Title:
  Involuntary Reservations: Non-Fictional Literature on the Ecosystem of Nuclear Zones
• Creator:
  Gieba, Kamila
• Description:
  Bruce Sterling called involuntary reserves such places that were “recovered” by nature as a result of a catastrophe, contamination or war. This type of reserve is the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, almost completely uninhabited by people for over 30 years. On its Belarusian side, the Polessian State Radiation-Ecological Reserve was established. The abandoned villages have been consumed by nature, and endan-gered animal species find their refuge in the zone. At the same time, the zone is still irradiated, its landscape is filled with radioactivity stamps, vehicle cemeteries and mounds-burials where contaminated houses, objects, trees were buried. The article will present the representation of the Chernobyl ecosystem present in non-fictional literature ( including texts by Svetlana Aleksijewicz, Mary Mycio, Kate Brown, Igor Kostin and others ) and the problematization of the status of this environment, which Adam Higginbotham calls “contaminated Eden.”
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2022 Kamila Gieba
• Date:
  2022.09.30
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Porównania; Vol. 31 No. 1 (2022): Environmental Humanities II; 79-93;
  Porównania; Tom 31 Nr 1 (2022): Humanistyka środowiskowa cz. 2; 79-93;
  1733-165X
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/p/article/view/28555/30747
• Subject:
  reportage;
  non-fiction literature;
  Chernobyl;
  disaster;
  nature;
  reportaż;
  literatura niefikcjonalna;
  Czarnobyl;
  katastrofa;
  natura
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/p/article/view/28555
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text