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Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth offers ecocritical and ecopoetic readings that focus on multispecies dwellings of enchantment and reenchant our rapport with the more-than-human world. It sheds light on the marvelous entanglements between humans and other life forms coexisting with us–entanglements that, when fully perceived, call onto humans to shift perspectives on both the causes and solutions to current ecological crises. Working against the disenchantment of humans’ relationships with and perceptions of the world entailed by a modern ontology, this book illustrates the power of ecopoetics to attune humans to the vibrant matter both within and outside of us. Braiding indigenous with non-indigenous worldviews, this book tackles ecopoetics emerging from varying locations in the world. It underscores the postmodernist, remythologizing processes going on in many ecopoetic texts, via magical realist modes and mythopoeia.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Ecopoetics at the Tipping Point by Joni Adamson
Introduction: What Matters Sings: Ecopoetics of Reenchantment by Bénédicte Meillon
Part I: Theorizing Ecopoetics of (Re)Enchantment
Chapter 1: Necessary Wonder: Promises and Pitfalls of Enchantment by Charles Holdefer
Chapter 2: 'I Turn Homeward, Wondering': Reasons for Enchantment by Yves-Charles Grandjeat
Chapter 3: Everyone is Absorbed: Enchanting Substance in VanderMeer's Southern Reach by Randall Roorda
Chapter 4: Nature's Speech and Storytelling: The Voice of Wisdom in the Nonhuman by Françoise Besson
Chapter 5: 'A Place Grown Intense And Holy': Dwelling in the Enchanted World of Words by Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves
Part II: Dwellings of Enchantment in Literatures of Place, Old, and New
Chapter 6: Wonder, Enchantment, and the New Nature Writing by Joshua Mabie
Chapter 7: Eco-memoir, Belonging, and the Ecopoetics of Settler Colonial Enchantment by Tom Lynch
Chapter 8: Aesthetic Choices for the Anthropocene Era in the New American Liter

Product details

Published Oct 27 2020
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 394
ISBN 9781793631596
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 227 x 162 mm
Series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
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