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With twelve original essays that characterize truly international ecocriticisms, New International Voices in Ecocriticism presents a compendium of ecocritical approaches, including ecocritical theory, ecopoetics, ecocritical analyses of literary, cultural, and musical texts (especially those not commonly studied in mainstream ecocriticism), and new critical vistas on human-nonhuman relations, postcolonial subjects, material selves, gender, and queer ecologies. It develops new perspectives on literature, culture, and the environment. The essays, written by contributors from the United States, Canada, Germany, Turkey, Spain, China, India, and South Africa, cover novels, drama, autobiography, music, and poetry, mixing traditional and popular forms. Popular culture and the production and circulation of cultural imaginaries feature prominently in this volume—how people view their world and the manner in which they share their perspectives, including the way these perspectives challenge each other globally and locally. In this sense the book also probes borders, border transgression, and border permeability. By offering diverse ecocritical approaches, the essays affirm the significance and necessity of international perspectives in environmental humanities, and thus offer unique responses to environmental problems and that, in some sense, affect many beginning and established scholars.
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
Başak Ağin 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
