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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.
List of contents
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
Bäak A¿in Dönmez
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
About the author
Edited by Serpil Oppermann - Foreword by Scott Slovic - Afterword by Greta Gaard - Contributions by Kyle Bladow; William V. Lombardi; Sylvan Goldberg; Basak Agin Dönmez; Sarah Nolan; Elise J. Mitchell; Guangchen Chen; Anu T. Asokan; Abdulhamit Arvas; Chri
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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.
