{"product_id":"new-international-voices-in-ecocriticism-9781498501477","title":"New International Voices in Ecocriticism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith essays from 12 doctoral students, this volume showcases emergent voices and celebrates the current diversity of critical approaches in ecocriticism. Most of the essays examine environmental issues within traditional literary genres, but a few analyze forms of pop culture, such as television sitcoms and heavy metal music. In a useful introduction, Oppermann offers a survey of the global contexts of ecocriticism. The essays themselves appear in three sections. The first, 'New Ecocritical Trends,' proposes a set of theoretical approaches: deconstructive ecocriticism, 'postlocal ecocriticism,' 'affective ecocriticism,' and 'gothic ecocriticism.' The second section explores how ecocriticism has moved beyond a concern with nature: these essays discuss the relationships among environment, culture, identity, and power and examine concepts of the 'un-natural' and the marginalized, place, and displacement. The final section focuses on human and animal relations in contemporary literature. The volume features an impressively transnational group of young scholars . . . The collection offers an interesting set of provocations and offers a glimpse of how ecocriticism might evolve as an increasingly global field of study. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eGothic ecocriticism. Eco-eroticism. Postlocalism. Unnatural eco-poetics. New materialisms. Eco-aesthetics… Serpil Oppermann’s farsighted, courageous project is here to show what ecocritical scholarship stands for: not only eliciting new categories, but also enabling new visions and creativities. The international voices speaking from these pages are telling us that the future of ecocriticism is here and now. -- Serenella Iovino, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Turin, Italy\u003cbr\u003eA needed spur to a more globalized field, New International Voices in Ecocriticism presents a lucid argument for why the ecocritical future must be geographically and temporally capacious. Combining activism and environmental justice and a focus on materiality with ethical generosity, the essays collected in this book offer a compelling vision of ecocriticism as an interdisciplinary and transformative practice. Serpil Oppermann is to be commended for gathering so many fine, emergent voices in this indispensable forum, and for composing an introduction for the book that serves as a manifesto for work to come. -- Jeffrey J. Cohen, George Washington University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable 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","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040619299159,"sku":"9781498501477","price":88.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498501477.jpg?v=1750947295","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/new-international-voices-in-ecocriticism-9781498501477","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}