Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape: Critical Essays

✍ Scribed by Isabel Sobral Campos

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 317
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape: Critical Essays surveys ecopoetry from a global perspective across different historical epochs. Its comparative approach foregrounds the importance of ecopoetics within the context of distinct national literatures and cultures to reveal the ubiquitous intersection of poetry with ecocriticism. The collection analyzes environmental problems resulting from the legacies of colonialism and focuses on issues of environmental justice and indigenous issues as well as on the intersection of genocide studies and environmentalism. It also examines ecologically-informed modes of relating to the world. In particular, it engages with interactions between the human and nonhuman as well as mind and matter. Finally, it broadens the scope of place to include both the absent land of exiled peoples, and the urban, built environment.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Transnational Ecopoetics
Section 1. AN ECOPOETICS OF RESISTANCE: Transnational Voices of Dissent
Chapter One. “No More Boomerang”: Environment and Technology in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Poetry
Chapter Two. “To a Nation Out of Its Mind”: Joy Harjo’s Post-Pastoral
Chapter Three. Native Chamorro Ecopoetry in the Work of Cecilia C. T. Perez
Chapter Four. “Neither Homeland nor Exile Are Words”: “Situated Knowledge” in the Works of Palestinian and Native American Writers
Chapter Five. Nature as a Counter-Historical Narrative in Holocaust Poetry (Miłosz, Celan, and Pagis)
Section 2. An Ecopoetics of the Nonhuman: Animal Encounters
Chapter Six. Noticing with Bishop: Curiosity and “The Moose”
Chapter Seven. Nonhuman Voices in Les Murray’s Translations from the Natural World
Section 3. An Ecopoetics of Matter: New Materialist Readings
Chapter Eight. Hybrid Alliterative Green: Ecopoetics in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Chapter Nine. Toward a Material Jeffers: Mysticism and the New Materialism
Chapter Ten. The Ecology of Metaphor: Will Alexander’s Exobiology as Goddess
Chapter Eleven. Towards an Improper Poetics
Index
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