Ecopoetic Place-Making - Nature and Mobility in Contemporary American Poetry

American ecopoetries of migration explore the conflicted relationships of mobile subjects to the nonhuman world and thus offer valuable environmental insight for our current age of mass mobility and global ecological crisis. In Ecopoetic Place-Making, Judith Rauscher analyzes the works of five contemporary American poets of migration, drawing from ecocriticism and mobility studies. The poets discussed in her study challenge exclusionary notions of place-attachment and engage in ecopoetic place-making from different perspectives of mobility, testifying to the potential of poetry as a means of conceptualizing alternative environmental imaginaries for our contemporary world on the move.

About the author

Judith Rauscher is assistant professor (Juniorprofessorin) of American Literature and Culture at the Universität zu Köln. She holds an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College, an M.A. in English and American Studies and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg. Her research focuses on contemporary American poetry, ecocriticism, Mobility Studies, American speculative fiction, and Gender Studies.

Summary

American ecopoetries of migration explore the conflicted relationships of mobile subjects to the nonhuman world and thus offer valuable environmental insight for our current age of mass mobility and global ecological crisis. In Ecopoetic Place-Making, Judith Rauscher analyzes the works of five contemporary American poets of migration, drawing from ecocriticism and mobility studies. The poets discussed in her study challenge exclusionary notions of place-attachment and engage in ecopoetic place-making from different perspectives of mobility, testifying to the potential of poetry as a means of conceptualizing alternative environmental imaginaries for our contemporary world on the move.

Report

»On the whole, the book offers both students and scholars a meticulous and excellent approach to the concepts and debates within environmental literature and ecocriticism. Moreover, »Ecopoetics and Place-Making« is an auspicious inauguration for the series, and it is more than fair to look forward to reading the books that will follow.«

Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves, Ecozonic, 15 (2024) 20241125

Product details

• Authors: Judith Rauscher
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.2023
• EAN: 9783837669343
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-6934-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 19 mm x 227 mm
• Weight: 438 g
• Series: Literary Ecologies 1; Literary Ecologies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Migration, Flüchtlinge und politisches Asyl, Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung, Englische Literatur Amerikas, Ethnic Studies, Literature, Literary Studies, Sociology, Globalization, History: specific events & topics, Cultural Studies, Nature, American Studies, Poetry, Mobility, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Philosophy, Ecology, United States, General & world history, Social Sciences, Political science & theory, Animals & society, Migration, immigration & emigration, auseinandersetzen, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: aesthetics, Philosophie Ästhetik, Social impact of environmental issues, Population & demography, Human Geography, Sociology and anthropology, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Refugees & Political Asylum, Place-Making, Philosophy and psychology, Culture and institutions, Factors affecting social behavior, Social processes, Economics of land and energy, International migration and colonization, Groups of people, Political science (Politics and government), History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines, Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric, English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures, Other ethical norms, Cosmology (Philosophy of nature)