New International Voices in Ecocriticism presents a compendium of ecocritical approaches, including ecocritical theory, ecopoetics, ecocritical analyses of literary, cultural, and musical texts, and new critical vistas on human-nonhuman relations, postcolonial subjects, material selves, gender, and queer ecologies.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents
Foreword by Scott Slovic
Acknowledgments
Introduction: New International Voices in Ecocriticism
Serpil Oppermann
Part I. New Ecocritical Trends
Chapter 1. Selves at the Fringes: Expanding Material Ecocriticism
Kyle Bladow
Chapter 2. "Global Subcultural Bohemianism": Postlocal Ecocriticism and Tim Winton's Breath
William V. Lombardi
Chapter 3. "What is it about you . . . that so irritates me?": Northern Exposure's Sustainable Feeling
Sylvan Goldberg
Chapter 4. Bang Your Head and Save the Planet: Gothic Ecocriticism
Bä ak A in Dö nmez
Part II. Nature and Human Experience
Chapter 5. Un-Natural Ecopoetics: Natural/Cultural Intersections in Poetic Language and Form
Sarah Nolan
Chapter 6. "There's No Place like 'Home'": Susanna Moodie, Shelter Writing, and Dwelling on the Earth
Elise Mitchell
Chapter 7. Against Ecological Kitsch: Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage Project
Guangchen Chen
Chapter 8. Neo-Aranyakas: An Enquiry into Mahasweta Devi's Forest Fictions
Anu T. Asokan
Chapter 9. Ecoerotic Imaginations in the Early Modernity and Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure
Abdulhamit Arvas
Part III. Human-Nonhuman Relations
Chapter 10. What Are We? The Human Animal in Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape
Christina Caupert
Chapter 11. Familiar Animals: The question of human-animal relationships in Lauren Beukes's Zoo City
Elzette Steenkamp
Chapter 12. Dismantling "Conceptual Straitjackets" in Peter Dickinson's Eva
Diana Villanueva Romero
Afterword by Greta Gaard
Contributors
Index
