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Book SynopsisVolume 39 of FLS French Literature Series features ten articles on the topic of the environment in French and Francophone Literature and Film. Contributors engage with the work of such authors, filmakers and cartoonists as Michel Serres, Luc Ferry, Patrice Nganang, Marie Darrieussecq, Yann-Arthus Bertrand and Plantu, and such topics as human zoos, eco-colonialism, queer theory, and the environmental catastrophes of WWI and, globally, of human civilization as recorded in the recent eco-documentary, HOME. Wide-ranging, provocative and topical these articles both broaden and deepen the efficacy of ecocriticism as a tool for enriching our understanding of the field beyond the English and American “nature writing” at the theory’s core.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Jonathan Krell: Michel Serres, Luc Ferry, and the Possibility of a Natural Contract Louisa Mackenzie: It’s a Queer Thing: Early Modern French Ecocriticism Christophe Ippolito: Discours mythiques et écocritiques en dialogue: l’exemple d’Alexandrie d’Égypte Walter Putnam: “Please Don’t Feed the Natives”: Human Zoos, Colonial Desire, and Bodies on Display Claire Keith: Pilgrims in a Toxic Land: Writing the Trenches of the French Great War Marie Chantale Mofin Noussi: Café toxique: éco-colonialisme et monoculture dans La Terre du café de Patrice Nganang Stéphanie Posthumus: Writing the Land/scape: Marie Darrieussecq’s Le Pays Liliane Toss: L’Environnement dans le dessin de presse de Plantu: étude sémiotique Leon Sachs: Eco-Lessons: Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s HOME and the Republican Pedagogical Contract Isabelle Delannoy: Sciences humaines et écologie — trouver les nouvelles passerelles et les nouveaux mots pour entreprendre un nouveau monde
