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Subject(s)

• American literature—Women authors—History and criticism [Browse]
• Ecofeminism in literature [Browse]
• Feminist literary criticism [Browse]
• Ecology in literature [Browse]
• Nature in literature [Browse]
• Feminism and literature—United States [Browse]

Editor

• Gaard, Greta Claire [Browse]
• Estok, Simon C. [Browse]
• Oppermann, Serpil [Browse]

Series

• Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 16. [More in this series]
• Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature ; 16

Summary note

"Exploring environmental literature from a feminist perspective, this volume presents a diversity of feminist ecocritical approaches to affirm the continuing contributions, relevance, and necessity of a feminist perspective in environmental literature, culture, and science. Feminist ecocriticism has a substantial history, with roots in second- and third-wave feminist literary criticism, women's environmental writing and social change activisms, and eco-cultural critique, and yet both feminist and ecofeminist literary perspectives have been marginalized. The essays in this collection build on the belief that the repertoire of violence (conceptual and literal) toward nature and women comprising our daily lives must become central to our ecocritical discussions, and that basic literacy in theories about ethics are fundamental to these discussions. The book offers an international collection of scholarship that includes ecocritical theory, literary criticism, and ecocultural analyses, bringing a diversity of perspectives in terms of gender, sexuality, and race. Reconnecting with the histories of feminist and ecofeminist literary criticism, and utilizing new developments in postcolonial ecocriticism, animal studies, queer theory, feminist and gender studies, cross-cultural and international ecocriticism, this timely volume develops a continuing and international feminist ecocritical perspective on literature, language, and culture."--Publisher's website.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Linda Hogan
• Introduction / Greta Gaard, Simon C. Estok, and Serpil Oppermann.
• Part I: Feminist Ecocritical Theory. Feminist Ecocriticism: A Posthumanist Direction in Ecocritical Trajectory / Serpil Oppermann ; Toxic Epiphanies: Dioxin, Power, and Gendered Bodies in Laura Conti's Narratives on Seveso / Serenella Iovino ; Treating Objects Like Women: Feminist Ontology and the Question of Essence / Timothy Morton ; The Ecophobia Hypothesis: Re-membering the Feminist Body of Ecocriticism / Simon Estok.
• Part II: Feminist / Postcolonial / Environmental Justice. Streams of Violence: Colonialism, Modernization, and Gender in María Cristina Mena's "John of God, the Water-Carrier" / Chiyo Crawford ; Saving the Costa Rican Rainforest: Anacristina Rossi's Mad About Gandoca / Regina Root ; The Poetics of Decolonisation: Reading Carpentaria in a Feminist Ecocritical Frame / Kate Rigby ; Re-Imagining the Human: Ecofeminism, Affect, and Postcolonial Narration / Laura White.
• Part III: Species, Sexuality, and Eco-Activisms. Women and Interspecies Care: Dog Mothers in Taiwan / Chia-Ju Chang and Iris Ralph ; The Queer Vegetarian: Understanding Alimentary Activism / Lauren Rae Hall ; Sex, Population, and Environmental Eugenics in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood / Rachel Stein ; Down With People: Queer Tendencies and Troubling Racial Politics in Antinatalist Discourse / Nicole Seymour.
• Part IV: Apocalyptic Visions. Keep Moving: Place and Gender in a Post-Apocalyptic Environment / Christa Grewe-Volpp ; Queer Green Apocalypse: Tony Kushner's Angels in America / Katie Hogan ; In(ter)dependence Day: A Feminist Ecocritical Perspective on Fireworks / Greta Gaard.
• About the Contributors
• Index.

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ISBN

• 9780415822602 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 0415822602 (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2012047414

OCLC

825196404

Other standard number

• 40022471909

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