Abstract
Erin James and Birgit Spengler discuss the role of (life) narratives in the posthuman Anthropocene from a narratological perspective. Building on postcolonial scholarship and her own work in the field of econarratology, James calls on scholars in the environmental humanities to develop a more precise definition of “narrative” as well as to distinguish more carefully between agency and narrative agency, which she defines as a cognitive affordance unique to humans. Additionally, she encourages these scholars not only to continue to study the human but also to examine the gaps and silences in (life) narratives written by and for humans to understand how these texts have reproduced anthropocentric world views and, ultimately, to find ways to overcome these views.