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Book SynopsisWith 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 volumehow people view their world and the manner in which they share their perspectives, including the way these perspectives challenge eac
Trade ReviewGothic 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
Table of ContentsTable 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
