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With twelve original essays that characterize truly international
ecocriticisms, New International Voices in Ecocriticism presents a
compendium of ecocritical approaches, including ecocritical theory,
ecopoetics, ecocritical analyses of literary, cultural, and musical
texts (especially those not commonly studied in mainstream
ecocriticism), and new critical vistas on human-nonhuman relations,
postcolonial subjects, material selves, gender, and queer
ecologies. It develops new perspectives on literature, culture, and
the environment. The essays, written by contributors from the
United States, Canada, Germany, Turkey, Spain, China, India, and
South Africa, cover novels, drama, autobiography, music, and
poetry, mixing traditional and popular forms. Popular culture and
the production and circulation of cultural imaginaries feature
prominently in this volume-how people view their world and the
manner in which they share their perspectives, including the way
these perspectives challenge each other globally and locally. In
this sense the book also probes borders, border transgression, and
border permeability. By offering diverse ecocritical approaches,
the essays affirm the significance and necessity of international
perspectives in environmental humanities, and thus offer unique
responses to environmental problems and that, in some sense, affect
many beginning and established scholars.
Turkish Ecocriticism: From Neolithic to Contemporary Timescapes
explores the values, perceptions, and transformations of the
environment, ecology, and nature in Turkish culture, literature,
and the arts. Through these themes, it examines historical and
contemporary environmentally engaged literary and cultural
traditions in Turkey. The volume re-imagines Turkey in its
geo-social and ecocultural narratives of multiple connections and
complexities, in its multi-faceted webs of histories, and in its
rich multispecies stories.
This important volume brings together scientific, cultural,
literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives to offer new
understandings of the critical issues of our ecological present and
new models for the creation of alternative ecological futures. At a
time when the narrative and theoretical threads of the
environmental humanities are more entwined than ever with the
scientific, ethical, and political challenges of the global
ecological crisis, this volume invites us to rethink the
Anthropocene, the posthuman, and the environmental from various
cross-disciplinary viewpoints. The book enriches the environmental
debate with new conceptual tools and revitalizes thematic and
methodological collaborations in the trajectory of ecocriticism and
the environmental humanities. Alliances between the humanities and
the social and natural sciences are vital in addressing and finding
viable solutions to our planetary predicaments. Drawing on
cutting-edge studies in all the major fields of the eco-cultural
debate, the chapters in this book build a creative critical
discourse that explores, challenges and enhances the field of
environmental humanities.
With twelve original essays that characterize truly international
ecocriticisms, New International Voices in Ecocriticism presents a
compendium of ecocritical approaches, including ecocritical theory,
ecopoetics, ecocritical analyses of literary, cultural, and musical
texts (especially those not commonly studied in mainstream
ecocriticism), and new critical vistas on human-nonhuman relations,
postcolonial subjects, material selves, gender, and queer
ecologies. It develops new perspectives on literature, culture, and
the environment. The essays, written by contributors from the
United States, Canada, Germany, Turkey, Spain, China, India, and
South Africa, cover novels, drama, autobiography, music, and
poetry, mixing traditional and popular forms. Popular culture and
the production and circulation of cultural imaginaries feature
prominently in this volume-how people view their world and the
manner in which they share their perspectives, including the way
these perspectives challenge each other globally and locally. In
this sense the book also probes borders, border transgression, and
border permeability. By offering diverse ecocritical approaches,
the essays affirm the significance and necessity of international
perspectives in environmental humanities, and thus offer unique
responses to environmental problems and that, in some sense, affect
many beginning and established scholars.
Exploring environmental literature from a feminist perspective,
this volume presents a diversity of feminist ecocritical approaches
to affirm the continuing contributions, relevance, and necessity of
a feminist perspective in environmental literature, culture, and
science. Feminist ecocriticism has a substantial history, with
roots in second- and third-wave feminist literary criticism,
women's environmental writing and social change activisms, and
eco-cultural critique, and yet both feminist and ecofeminist
literary perspectives have been marginalized. The essays in this
collection build on the belief that the repertoire of violence
(conceptual and literal) toward nature and women comprising our
daily lives must become central to our ecocritical discussions, and
that basic literacy in theories about ethics are fundamental to
these discussions. The book offers an international collection of
scholarship that includes ecocritical theory, literary criticism,
and ecocultural analyses, bringing a diversity of perspectives in
terms of gender, sexuality, and race. Reconnecting with the
histories of feminist and ecofeminist literary criticism, and
utilizing new developments in postcolonial ecocriticism, animal
studies, queer theory, feminist and gender studies, cross-cultural
and international ecocriticism, this timely volume develops a
continuing and international feminist ecocritical perspective on
literature, language, and culture.
Exploring environmental literature from a feminist perspective,
this volume presents a diversity of feminist ecocritical approaches
to affirm the continuing contributions, relevance, and necessity of
a feminist perspective in environmental literature, culture, and
science. Feminist ecocriticism has a substantial history, with
roots in second- and third-wave feminist literary criticism,
women's environmental writing and social change activisms, and
eco-cultural critique, and yet both feminist and ecofeminist
literary perspectives have been marginalized. The essays in this
collection build on the belief that the repertoire of violence
(conceptual and literal) toward nature and women comprising our
daily lives must become central to our ecocritical discussions, and
that basic literacy in theories about ethics are fundamental to
these discussions. The book offers an international collection of
scholarship that includes ecocritical theory, literary criticism,
and ecocultural analyses, bringing a diversity of perspectives in
terms of gender, sexuality, and race. Reconnecting with the
histories of feminist and ecofeminist literary criticism, and
utilizing new developments in postcolonial ecocriticism, animal
studies, queer theory, feminist and gender studies, cross-cultural
and international ecocriticism, this timely volume develops a
continuing and international feminist ecocritical perspective on
literature, language, and culture.
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Material Ecocriticism (Paperback)
Serenella Iovino, Serpil Oppermann; Contributions by David Abram, Joni Adamson, Jane Bennett, …
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Material Ecocriticism offers new ways to analyze language and
reality, human and nonhuman life, mind and matter, without falling
into well-worn paths of thinking. Bringing ecocriticism closer to
the material turn, the contributions to this landmark volume focus
on material forces and substances, the agency of things, processes,
narratives and stories, and making meaning out of the world. This
broad-ranging reflection on contemporary human experience and
expression provokes new understandings of the planet to which we
are intimately connected.
This lively collection of essays explores the vital role of beauty
in the human experience of place, interactions with other species,
and contemplation of our own embodied lives. Devoting attention to
themes such as global climate change, animal subjectivity,
environmental justice and activism, and human moral responsibility
for the environment, these contributions demonstrate that beauty is
not only a meaningful dimension of our experience, but also a
powerful strategy for inspiring cultural transformation. Taken as a
whole, they underscore the ongoing relevance of aesthetics to the
ecocritical project and the concern for beauty that motivates
effective social and political engagement.
This important volume brings together scientific, cultural,
literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives to offer new
understandings of the critical issues of our ecological present and
new models for the creation of alternative ecological futures. At a
time when the narrative and theoretical threads of the
environmental humanities are more entwined than ever with the
scientific, ethical, and political challenges of the global
ecological crisis, this volume invites us to rethink the
Anthropocene, the posthuman, and the environmental from various
cross-disciplinary viewpoints. The book enriches the environmental
debate with new conceptual tools and revitalizes thematic and
methodological collaborations in the trajectory of ecocriticism and
the environmental humanities. Alliances between the humanities and
the social and natural sciences are vital in addressing and finding
viable solutions to our planetary predicaments. Drawing on
cutting-edge studies in all the major fields of the eco-cultural
debate, the chapters in this book build a creative critical
discourse that explores, challenges and enhances the field of
environmental humanities.
By drawing on oceanography (marine sciences) and limnology
(freshwater sciences), social sciences, and the environmental
humanities, the field of the blue humanities critically examines
the planet's troubled seas and distressed freshwaters from various
socio-cultural, literary, historical, aesthetic, ethical, and
theoretical perspectives. Since all waterscapes in the Anthropocene
are overexploited and endangered sites, the field calls for
transdisciplinary cooperation and encourages thinking with water
and thinking together beyond the conventions of tentacular
anthropocentric thought. Working across many disciplines, the blue
humanities, then, challenges the cultural primacy of standard sea
and freshwater narratives and promotes disanthropocentric
discourses about water ecologies. Engaging with the most pressing
water problems, this Element contributes to those new discursive
practices from a material ecocritical perspective. The authors'
hypothesis is that fluid-storied matter and the new stories we tell
can change the game by changing our mindset.
This lively collection of essays explores the vital role of beauty
in the human experience of place, interactions with other species,
and contemplation of our own embodied lives. Devoting attention to
themes such as global climate change, animal subjectivity,
environmental justice and activism, and human moral responsibility
for the environment, these contributions demonstrate that beauty is
not only a meaningful dimension of our experience, but also a
powerful strategy for inspiring cultural transformation. Taken as a
whole, they underscore the ongoing relevance of aesthetics to the
ecocritical project and the concern for beauty that motivates
effective social and political engagement.
A more-than-human approach to planetary survival, from a leading
environmental humanist. Ecologies of a Storied Planet in the
Anthropocene is a tour de force. With transdisciplinarity and
theoretical lucidity, it rethinks the Anthropocene from a material
ecocritical perspective, envisioning innovative modes of knowledge
for deeper understandings of Anthropocene ecologies. Focusing on
nonhuman agencies, Serpil Oppermann shows in fascinating detail how
to better imagine an ecological future on our storied planet that
has suffered enormously from an anthropocentric mindset.
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