Research Catalog

Title

Literature and ecofeminism : intersectional and international voices / edited by Douglas A. Vakoch and Sam Mickey.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2018.

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Additional Authors

• Vakoch, Douglas A.
• Mickey, Sam, 1981-

Description

xxi, 211 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Bringing together ecofeminism and ecological literary criticism (ecocriticism), this book presents diverse ways of understanding and responding to the tangled relationships between the personal, social, and environmental dimensions of human experience and expression. Literature and Ecofeminism explores the intersections of sexuality, gender, embodiment, and the natural world articulated in literary works from Shakespeare through to contemporary literature. Bringing together essays from a global group of contributors, this volume draws on American literature, as well as Spanish, South African, Taiwanese, and Indian literature, in order to further the dialogue between ecofeminism and ecocriticism and demonstrate the ongoing relevance of ecofeminism for facilitating critical readings of literature. In doing so, the book opens up multiple directions for ecofeminist ideas and practices, as well as new possibilities for interpreting literature. This comprehensive volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of ecocriticism, ecofeminism, literature, gender studies and the environmental humanities"--

Series Statement

Routledge environmental humanities

Uniform Title

Routledge environmental humanities.

Subjects

• Feminist literary criticism
• Nature in literature
• Human ecology in literature
• Ecofeminism in literature
• Ecology in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Editor's preface / Sam Mickey -- Foreword / Greta Gaard -- Introduction / Patrick Murphy -- "Like a creature native": Ophelia's death and ecofeminism / Lesley Kordecki -- Anna Letitia Barbauld's Ecological sensibility / Calley A. Hornbuckle -- Mary Austin's proto-ecofeminist land ethic in The Ford (1917) and The Owens Valley water controversy / Emine Geçgil -- T. S. Eliot, Ecofeminist / Etienne Terblanche -- Ecofeminist philosophy and issues of identity in Sylvia Townsend Warner's Lolly Willows and Mr. Fortune's Maggot / Julia Tofans̆uk -- "Taking mighty strides across the world": Positioning Zora Neale Hurston in the ecofeminist tradition / Nicole Anae -- Ecofeminist sensibilities and rural land literacies in the work of contemporary Appalachian novelist Ann Pancake / Theresa L. Burriss -- Essentialist Tropes in At Play in the Fields of the Lord / Karl Zuelke -- Cyborg-goddesses in Linda Hogan's Indios and Jade Chen's Mazu's Body-guards / Peter I-min Huang -- Wolves, singing trees, and replicants: Ecofeminist readings of contemporary Spanish novels / Carmen Flys Junquera -- Ecofeminist moorings in globalized India: Literary discourse and interpretations / Swapna Gopinath, Sony Jalarajan Raj, and Soumya Jose -- The vocation of healing: The poetry of Malika Ndlovu / Deirdre Byrne -- Grace Nichols and Jackie Kay's Corporeal Black Venus: Feminist ecocritical realignments / Izabel F. O. Brandão -- Afterword: Ecofeminism through literary activism, hybridity, connections and caring / Anna Bedford.

Call Number

JFE 18-8951

ISBN

• 9780815381723
• 0815381727

LCCN

2017047013

OCLC

1007069389

Title

Literature and ecofeminism : intersectional and international voices / edited by Douglas A. Vakoch and Sam Mickey.

Publisher

London ; New York : Routledge, 2018.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge environmental humanities

Routledge environmental humanities.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Vakoch, Douglas A., editor.

Mickey, Sam, 1981- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Literature and ecofeminism London ; New York : Routledge, 2018 9781351209755 (DLC) 2018037754

Research Call Number

JFE 18-8951