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Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape: Critical Essays surveys ecopoetry from a global perspective across different historical epochs. Its comparative approach foregrounds the importance of ecopoetics within the context of distinct national literatures and cultures to reveal the ubiquitous intersection of poetry with ecocriticism. The collection analyzes environmental problems resulting from the legacies of colonialism and focuses on issues of environmental justice and indigenous issues as well as on the intersection of genocide studies and environmentalism. It also examines ecologically-informed modes of relating to the world. In particular, it engages with interactions between the human and nonhuman as well as mind and matter. Finally, it broadens the scope of place to include both the absent land of exiled peoples, and the urban, built environment.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Trans-National Ecopoetics
Isabel Sobral Campos

Section 1 - An Ecopoetics of Resistance: Transnational Voices of Dissent

Chapter One - “No More Boomerang:” Environment and Technology in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Poetry
John Charles Ryan
Chapter Two - “To a Nation Out of its Mind”: Joy Harjo's Post-Pastoral
Sarah Giragosian
Chapter Three - Native Chamorro Eco-Poetry in the Work of Cecilia C. T. Perez
Craig Santos Perez
Chapter Four - “Neither Homeland Nor Exile are Words”: “Situated Knowledge” in the Works of Palestinian and Native American Writers
Benay Blend
Chapter Five - Nature as a Counter-Historical Narrative in Holocaust Poetry (Milosz, Celan, and Pagis)
Aleksandra Ubertowska, Translated by Pawel Wojtas

Section 2 - An Ecopoetics of the Nonhuman: Animal Encounters

Chapter Six - Noticing with Bishop: Curiosity and “The Moose”
Cheryl Alison
Chapter Seven - Nonhuman Voices in Les Murray's Translations from the Natural World
Sarah Bouttier

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Product details

Published Dec 27 2018
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 316
ISBN 9781498547208
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 230 x 160 mm
Series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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