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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
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 | 27 Dec 2018 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 316 |
| ISBN | 9781498547208 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Dimensions | 230 x 160 mm |
| Series | Ecocritical Theory and Practice |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Isabel Sobral Campos’s collection covers vast historical, geographical, and poetic terrain, contributing impressively to the trans-national emphasis in contemporary environmental humanities scholarship. The scope and uniqueness of this ecocritical volume—ranging from Australian aboriginal poetry to Palestinian poetry and Holocaust poetry, but also including modernist and contemporary experimental poetry in the U.S. and the U.K.—is breathtaking.
Scott Slovic, Oregon Research Institute
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By juxtaposing canonical and neglected poets from a wide variety of global contexts, Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape provides a bold and compelling case for the persistence of environmental preoccupations in poetry across cultures and the unique capacity of poetry to assist us in understanding our tragic, fragile, and indispensable relationship to the physical world.
George Handley, professor of interdisciplinary humanities, Brigham Young University
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