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This book establishes how ecopoetics can provide insight into the poetic echoes of the living earth that are diffracted in environmental fiction, encouraging a reenchantment that adheres to postmodern science, while braiding various onto-epistemological threads. It reentangles...
List of contents
Part One: From Disenchantment to an Ecopoetics of Reenchantment
Chapter One: Disenchanted, Enchanted, and Reenchanted Worldviews
Chapter Two: Toward an Ecofeminist, Ecopoetic Project of a Rational Reenchantment
Chapter Three: An Ecofeminist Remystification of Narrative: The Many Faces of Gaia in the Anthrop-o(bs)cene
Chapter Four: Sowing the Seeds of an Ecopoet(h)ics of Wonder and Enchantment: Reincorporating Language and the Human into the Flesh and Song of the World
Part Two: Ecopoetic Reenchantment via Liminal Realism
Chapter Five: Why Liminal, Rather than "Magical," "Spiritual," "Mystical," "Ontological," or "Epistemological" Realism?
Chapter Six: Postcolonial Liminality and (Re)initiation into a Multispecies World: Moving betwixt and between Human and Other-than-Human Realms in Linda Hogan's Power and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
Chapter Seven: Post-Pastoral, Non-Indigenous Thought-Experiments with Totemic and Animistic Liminality
Chapter Eight: Liminal Realism and Interspecies Thought-Experiments in Contemporary Fiction
Part Three: Writing and Dwelling Ecopoetically
Chapter Nine: Ecopoets and the Art of Anamorphosis
Chapter Ten: Postmodern Shamanism: Making Headway Toward Other-than-Human Perspectives
Chapter Eleven: Reweaving Word to World: Ecopoets as Instruments of the Sympoietic Song of the Earth
Chapter Twelve: Restor(y)ing and Rewor(l)ding: Writing in a Grounded Middle Voice
Chapter Thirteen: Translating the Song of the Earth: Reen-chanting Earthly Harmonies
About the author
Bénédicte Meillon is associate professor at the University of Perpignan and affiliated with the LARCA- CNRS at the Université de Paris.
