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"Nature, thou art my goddess"-Edmund's bold assertion in King Lear
could easily inspire and, at the same time, function as a
lamentation of the inadequate respect of nature in culture. In this
volume, international experts provide multidisciplinary exploration
of the insubordinate representations of nature in modern and
contemporary literature and art. The work foregrounds the need to
reassess how nature is already, and has been for a while, striking
back against human domination. From the perspective of literary
studies, art, history, media studies, ethics and philosophy, and
ethnology and anthropology, Avenging Nature highlights the need of
assessing insurgent discourses that-converging with
counter-discourses of race, gender or class-realize the empowerment
of nature from its subaltern position. Acknowledging the argument
that cultural representations of nature establish a relationship of
domination and exploitation of human discourse over nonhuman
reality and that, in consequence, our regard for nature as humanist
critics is instrumental and anthropocentric, the present volume
advocates for the view that the time has come to finally perceive
nature's vengeance and to critically probe into nature's ongoing
revenge against the exploitation of culture.
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