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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.

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Author:   Serpil Oppermann ,  Scott Slovic ,  Greta Gaard ,  Kyle Bladow
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.481kg
ISBN:  

9781498501477

ISBN 10:   1498501478
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   18 December 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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

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With 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 Gothic 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 A 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

Gothic 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, University of Turin

With 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 * Gothic 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 A 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

Gothic 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, Editor of Material Ecocriticism A 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

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Serpil Oppermann is professor of English at Hacettepe University.

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