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Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies edited by Smaro Kamboureli and Christl Verduyn [PDF]
Chad Weidner reviews Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies edited by Smaro Kamboureli and Christl ...
Weidner, Chad
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Narrating Entanglement Without Dehumanisation in Contemporary Eco‐Fiction
ABSTRACT This essay presents a comparative analysis of two contemporary works of eco‐fiction, Richard Powers's The Overstory (2018) and Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood (2023). Both novels use multiperspective narration in the service of entanglement narratives, forms of storytelling that emphasise the interconnection of human and nonhuman life.
Diana Rose Newby
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Michel Serres: From restricted to general ecology [PDF]
Michel Serres's relation to ecocriticism is complex. On the one hand, he is a pioneer in the area, anticipating the current fashion for ecological thought by over a decade.
Watkin, Christopher
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ABSTRACT This paper presents a close‐hearing analysis of Forest 404, a transmedial audio drama that was released to BBC Sounds in 2019. Despite the drama's eco‐dystopian critique of teleological ‘progress’ narratives (that enable and perpetuate the destruction of the natural world), I argue that the series ultimately propagates a sense of inevitability
Matilda Jones
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On Sylvia Bowerbank, Green Literary Scholar [PDF]
To accompany the posthumous publication of Sylvia Bowerbank’s personal essay “Sitting in the Bush, Or Deliberate Idleness,” eight scholars introduce her ecocritical thought and practice to a new generation of ecocritics by reflecting on the ways Sylvia ...
Henderson, Bob +7 more
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Landscape, culture, and education in Defoe's Robinson crusoe [PDF]
In their article "Landscape, Culture, and Education in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe" Geert Vandermeersche and Ronald Soetaert discuss Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe as a narrative that translates nature and our dealings with it into a literary text ...
Soetaert, Ronald, Vandermeersche, Geert
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Future of Thailand's captive elephants: commentary on Baker & Winkler on elephant rewilding [PDF]
Removal from natural habitat and commodification as private property compromise elephants’ broader societal value. Although we support Baker & Winkler’s (2020) plea for a new community-based rewilding conservation model focused on mahout culture, we ...
Bates, Lucy +3 more
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Narrative Horizons: Deliberate Derangement in Oceanic Climate Fiction
ABSTRACT Although we live in the Anthropocene—the geological age of humankind, wherein humans have measurably impacted the biosphere—we struggle to narrate the Anthropocene. In particular, we struggle to give narrative shape to its foremost feature: anthropogenic climate change.
Mark Celeste
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Frye as Forefather?: The Bush Garden and Canadian Ecocriticism [PDF]
This review considers the importance of Northrop Frye\u27s collection of writings on Canada in The Bush Garden from an ecocritical perspective.
Zantingh, Matthew
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Climate Distress and the Work of Care: On Becoming and Worlding Otherwise
ABSTRACT This review article brings together recent work on climate distress and reparative framings of care, drawing in particular on Carr's (2022) recent call to turn to “tangible work of climate crisis” to explore the potential posed by climate distress to become and world otherwise.
J. R. Jarvis
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