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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452420803321

Titolo

Words for a small planet [[electronic resource] ] : ecocritical views / / edited by Nanette Norris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2013

ISBN

0-7391-7159-3

1-299-14880-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

NorrisNanette

Disciplina

809/.93355

Soggetti

Ecocriticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Words for a Small Planet; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Ecocritical Spring and Evolutionary Discourse; 1. Imaginary Representations and Cultural Performances of Ecocriticism; 2. Ecological Narrative or Imperial Exploitation: What's the "Monster" in Animal Planet's River Monsters?; 3. The Representation of Nature:An Ecocritical Reading of Juan León Mera's Cumandá; 4. Nature Versus War in Letters From the Front, 1914-1918; 5. A Passage to India: An Ecocritical Reading; 6. Nature, Women, and the Ecotext: Self-Discovery in Emily Nasrallah's Short Stories "The Cocoon" and "The Butterfly"

7. Jerusalem in the Poems of Tamim Al-Barghouthi and Yehuda Amichai8. Omumu Concept of Begetting: A Pro-feminist Lesson from Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart; 9. The Legacy of the American War in Vietnam: Tim O'Brien's "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong"; 10. National Narrative as Wilderness: An Ecocritical Interpretation of Civilización y barbarie in Modern Argentine Literature; 11. Unnatural Appetites and the Case of the Cannibal in Korean Cinema; 12. Is "Eco" Enough?: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, Wayland Drew's The Erthring Cycle, and Evolutionary Fiction; Bibliography

Recommended ReadingIndex; About the Editor; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Scholars have begun critically assessing the relationship of modern environmental science, including the study of ecology, to the creation



and study of art and culture. In this volume, the voices come from around the globe-some tentative in the stirring of conscious entwinement, other voices, strident and forthright, foresee a grim future, for the planet, for our humanity, as our impositions and consumptions have made monsters of us all and stripped us of our essence, the heart of what it is to be human.