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Words for a Small Planet
Ecocritical Views
Nanette Norris (Anthology Editor) , Eduardo Barros-Grela (Contributor) , Sylvie Housiel (Contributor) , Yomna Al-Abdulkareem (Contributor) , Chinyere Okafor (Contributor) , Colette Balmain (Contributor) , Hessa Al-Kahlan (Contributor) , Iman Adawy Hanafy (Contributor) , Christopher Justice (Contributor) , Anna E. Hiller (Contributor) , Federico A. Chalupa (Contributor) , Andrew Belyea (Contributor) , Annie M. Ingram (Preface)
Words for a Small Planet
Ecocritical Views
Nanette Norris (Anthology Editor) , Eduardo Barros-Grela (Contributor) , Sylvie Housiel (Contributor) , Yomna Al-Abdulkareem (Contributor) , Chinyere Okafor (Contributor) , Colette Balmain (Contributor) , Hessa Al-Kahlan (Contributor) , Iman Adawy Hanafy (Contributor) , Christopher Justice (Contributor) , Anna E. Hiller (Contributor) , Federico A. Chalupa (Contributor) , Andrew Belyea (Contributor) , Annie M. Ingram (Preface)
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Description
Ecocriticism has matured beyond nature writing, beyond writing about nature. The essays in this volume look at the broader cultural, historical, sociological, and psychological implications of ecology in written, visual, and sound culture. In keeping with our sense of a global community, these essays are representative of international scholarship on ecology and the environment, and display the range of insight of which this criticism is capable. Focusing on popular culture, this volume is in the vanguard of our collective reflections on the directions in which our various societies are going.
Table of Contents
Annie Merrill Ingram
Introduction: Ecocritical Spring and Evolutionary Discourse
Andrew Belyea and Nanette Norris
Chapter 1: Imaginary Representations and Cultural Performances Of Ecocriticism
Eduardo Barros-Grela
Chapter 2: Ecological Narrative or Imperial Exploitation: What’s the “Monster” in Animal Planet’s River Monsters?
Christopher Justice
Chapter 3: The Representation of Nature: An Ecocritical Reading of Juan León Mera’s Cumandá
Frederico A. Chalupa
Chapter 4: Nature Versus War in Letters from the Front, 1914-1918
Sylvie Housiel
Chapter 5: A Passage to India: An Ecocritical Reading
Yomna Al-Abdulkareem
Chapter 6: Nature, Women, and the Ecotext: Self-Discovery in Emily Nasrallah’s Short Stories “The Cocoon” and “The Butterfly”
Iman A. Hanafy
Chapter 7: Jerusalem in the poetry of Tamim El-Barghouti and Yehuda Amichai
Hessa Al-Kahlan
Chapter 8: Omumu Concept of Begetting: A Pro-Feminist Lesson from Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
Chinyere Okafor
Chapter 9: The Legacy of the American War in Vietnam: Tim O’Brien’s “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong”
Nanette Norris
Chapter 10: National Narrative as Wilderness: An Ecocritical Interpretation of Civilización y barbarie in Modern Argentine LiteratureAnne E. Hiller
Chapter 11: Unnatural Appetites and the Case of the Cannibal in Korean Cinema
Colette Balmain
Chapter 12: Is ‘Eco’ Enough?: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, Wayland Drew’s The Erthring Cycle, and Evolutionary Fiction
Andrew Belyea
Product details
Published | 21 Nov 2012 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 238 |
ISBN | 9798216346180 |
Imprint | Lexington Books |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Words for a Small Planet is an important book that makes connections between traditional forms of eco-criticism and emerging, non-Western settings, texts, and frameworks. Anyone who studies and writes about literature and environment in the 21st Century needs to add this book to their collection!
Stephen P. Depoe, professor and head, Department of Communication, University of Cincinnati