Research Catalog

Title

Ecocriticism and indigenous studies : conversations from earth to cosmos / edited by Salma Monani and Joni Adamson.

Publication

• New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Monani, Salma
• Adamson, Joni, 1958-

Description

xvi, 252 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This book addresses the intersections between the interdisciplinary realms of Ecocriticism and Indigenous and Native American Studies, and between academic theory and pragmatic eco-activism conducted by multiethnic and indigenous communities. It illuminates the multi-layered, polyvocal ways in which artistic expressions render ecological connections, drawing on scholars working in collaboration with Indigenous artists from all walks of life, including film, literature, performance, and other forms of multimedia to expand existing conversations. Both local and global in its focus, the volume includes essays from multiethnic and Indigenous communities across the world, visiting topics such as Navajo opera, Sami film production history, south Indian tribal documentary, Maori art installations, Native American and First Nations science-fiction literature and film, Amazonian poetry, and many others. Highlighting trans-Indigenous sensibilities that speak to worldwide crises of environmental politics and action against marginalization, the collection alerts readers to movements of community resilience and resistance, cosmological thinking about inter- and intra-generational multi-species relations, and understandings of indigenous aesthetics and material ecologies. It engages with emerging environmental concepts such as multispecies ethnography, cosmopolitics, and trans-indigeneity, as well as with new areas of ecocritical research such as material ecocriticism, biosemiotics, and media studies. In its breadth and scope, this book promises new directions for ecocritical thought and environmental humanities practice, providing thought-provoking insight into what it means to be human in a locally situated, globally networked, and cosmologically complex world" --

Series Statement

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 69

Uniform Title

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 69.

Subject

• Environmental protection and motion pictures
• Indigenous peoples and mass media
• Ecology in motion pictures
• Indians in motion pictures
• Documentary films > History and criticism
• Performing arts > Environmental aspects
• Indigenous peoples > Intellectual life
• Ethnoecology
• Ecocriticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Cosmovisions, Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies / Joni Adamson and Salma Monani -- Resilience. Negotiating the Ontological Gap: Place, Performance, and Media Art Practices in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Janine Randerson and Amanda Yates -- Science Fiction, Westerns, and the Vital Cosmo-ethics of The 6th World / Salma Monani -- Long Environmentalism: After the Listening Session / Subhankar Banerjee -- Grounded in Spiritual Geography: Restoring Naabaahi in Enemy Slayer, a Navajo Oratorio / Laura Tohe -- Resistance. Dancing at the End of the World: The Poetics of the Body in Indigenous Protest / Janet Fiskio -- New Media, Activism, and Indigenous Environmental Governance: Politics and the Minnesota-Wisconsin / Wolf Hunt, Clint Carroll and Angelica Lawson -- Cyclical Conceptualizations of Time: Ecocritical Perspectives on Sami Film Culture / Pietari K??p? -- Resistance and Hope in Mohawk Cinema: Iroquois Cosmologies and Histories / Shelley Niro and Salma Monani -- Multi-Species Relations. A "Network of Networks": Multispecies Stories and Cosmopolitical Activism in Solar Storms and People of the Feather / Yalan Chang -- Tinai-Documentation as Ecocultural Ethnography: My Experience with Mudugar / Rayson Alex -- The Tangibility of Maize: Indigenous Literature, Bioart, and Violence in Mexico / Abigail Perez Aguilera -- Why Bears, Yakumama (Mother Water), and other Transformational Beings are (Still) Good to Think / Joni Adamson and Juan Carlos Galeano, with Illustrations by Solmi Angarita.

Call Number

MFL 16-5250

ISBN

• 9781138902978
• 1138902977

LCCN

• 2016013296
• 40026393529

OCLC

959272221

Title

Ecocriticism and indigenous studies : conversations from earth to cosmos / edited by Salma Monani and Joni Adamson.

Publisher

New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 69

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 69.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Monani, Salma, editor.

Adamson, Joni, 1958- editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40026393529

Research Call Number

MFL 16-5250