ABSTRACT

Rivers are a key site of human-nonhuman connection in the work of Kathleen Dean Moore and Rebecca Solnit. Reading this connection against the backdrop of the current climate crisis, this article considers how both writers offer ways of interacting with and thinking about changing landscapes that counter what Timothy Morton calls the ‘information dump’ of climate communication. I argue that by privileging conflicting emotions and uncertainty instead, Moore and Solnit use rivers and riverine forms to advocate for alternative, meaningful relationships to and understandings of shifting environments. With a dual focus on the physical and metaphorical resonances of rivers, this article unpacks the ways rivers might figure in our understanding of climate change, and what it might mean to read about rivers in this context. Ultimately, I suggest that Moore and Solnit’s works demonstrate encounters with joy and despair that not only characterise of twenty-first century relationships to the nonhuman, but are in fact vital to combatting ecological damage.

摘要

在凯瑟琳·迪恩·摩尔和丽贝卡·索尔尼特（Rebecca Solnit）的作品中，河流是人与人之间联系的重要场所。阅读当前气候危机背景下的这种联系，本文考虑了两位作者如何提供与景观互动和思考的方式，以应对蒂莫西·莫顿（Timothy Morton）所说的气候交流的“信息转储”。我认为，摩尔和索尔尼特通过赋予矛盾的情绪和不确定性来代替，而是利用河流和河流形式来倡导与变化的环境建立替代性的，有意义的关系和理解。本文着眼于河流的物理和隐喻共鸣，探讨了河流在我们对气候变化的理解中可能扮演的角色，以及在这种情况下阅读河流的含义。最终，