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Contesting Extinctions: Decolonial and Regenerative Futures
critically interrogates the discursive framing of extinctions and
how they relate to the systems that bring about biocultural loss.
The chapters in this multidisciplinary volume examine ecological
and social preservation movements from a variety of fields,
including environmental studies, literary studies, political
science, and philosophy. Grounded in a de-colonialist approach, the
contributors advocate for discourses of renewal grounded in
Indigenous, counter-hegemonic, and de-colonialist frameworks which
shift the discursive focus from ruin to regeneration.
The essays in this volume provide a theorization of what we might
call the "denatured" wild, in other words a notion of environmental
"restoration" or "reinhabitation" that recognizes and reconfigures
the human factor as an interdependent entity. Acknowledging the
contributions of Marco Armerio, Serenella Iovino, Giovanna
Ricoveri, Patrick Barron and Anna Re among others, Ecocritical
Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature: The Denatured Wild
negotiates the ground within the historicizing, theoretical
perspectives, and surveying spirit of these writers. Despite the
central role that nature has played in Italian culture and
literature, there has been an evident lack of critical approaches
free of the bridles of the socio-political manipulations of
nationalism. The authors in this collection, by recognizing the
groundbreaking work of many non-Italian ecocritics, challenge the
narrowly defined conventions of Italian Studies and illuminates the
complexities of an Italian ecocriticism that reveals a rich
environmentally engaged literary and cultural tradition.
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