International perspectives in feminist ecocriticism / / edited by Greta Gaard, Simon C. Estok, and Serpil Oppermann

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (309 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/355
• Soggetto topico: American literature - Women authors - History and criticism; Ecofeminism in literature; Feminist literary criticism; Ecology in literature; Nature in literature; Feminism and literature - United States
• Altri autori: EstokSimon C GaardGreta Claire OppermannSerpil
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Origins of Feminist Ecocriticism; Feminist Ecocritical Theory; Feminist/postcolonial/environmentalJustice; Species,Sexualities, Eco-Activisms; Apocalyptic Visions; Why Feminist Ecocriticism Now?; Notes; Works Cited; Part I: Feminist Ecocritical Theory; 1. Feminist Ecocriticism: A Posthumanist Directionin Ecocritical Trajectory; Ecofeminist Lineage; New Theories and Practices: Feminist Ecocriticism; Notes; Works Cited ; 2. Toxic Epiphanies: Dioxin, Power, and Gendered Bodies in Laura Conti's Narratives on SevesoNarrating an Italian Eco-Catastrophe:Laura Conti in Seveso; Revealing Agencies: Materiality, Discourse, and Narratives; Narrative Agencies: Posthuman Subjects and Voices of Marginality; Detoxifying Discourses: Feminism, Ecocriticism, and Narratives of Liberation; Notes; Works Cited; 3. Treating Objects Like Women: Feminist Ontology and the Question of Essence; The Essence of the Problem: the Problem of Essence; Entanglement; Contradictory Objects; Introverted Objects; Essence Revisited; Notes ; Works Cited4. The Ecophobia Hypothesis: Re-membering the Feminist Body of Ecocriticism; Notes; Works Cited; Part II: Feminist/Postcolonial/Environmental Justice; 5. Streams of Violence: Colonialism, Modernization, and Gender in María Cristina Mena's "John of God, the Water-Carrier"; The Challenge to Ecofeminism; Indigenous Women and the Literary Imagination; Sexual Violence and Neocolonialism in thePorfiriato; Women and the Modernization of Water in Mexico; Indigenous Women's Resistance; Notes; Works Cited; 6. Saving the Costa Rican Rainforest: Anacristina Rossi's Mad About Gandoca ; The Ecofeminist NovelLiterature as Public Memory; New Directions; Notes; Works Cited; 7. The Poetics of Decolonization: Reading Carpentaria in a Feminist Ecocritical Frame; Approaching Carpentaria; The Logic of Colonization; The Poetics of Decolonization; Notes; Works Cited; 8. Re-Imagining the Human: Ecofeminism, Affect,and Postcolonial Narration; Imagination at the Intersections: Ecofeminism, Affect, and Postcolonial Narration; Astley's Affective Narration: Re-Imagining HumanEmbodiment and Embeddedness; Forms of Relationality: Re-Imaginingthe Human Through Narrative Form; Notes; Works Cited ; Part III: Species, Sexualities, and Eco-Activisms9. Women and Interspecies Care: Dog Mothers in Taiwan; Industrialization's Leftovers; Pets; A Feminist Ecocritical Framework; Contributions, Checks, New Directions; Notes; Works Cited; 10. The Queer Vegetarian: Understanding Alimentary Activism; Toward a Queer Vegetarian Ecofeminism; Ecocritical Pasts and Repasts; At the Borders of the Human and Nonhuman; Coalicious; Notes; Works Cited; 11.Sex, Population, and Environmental Eugenics in Margaret Atwood's Oryx snd Crake snd The Year of the Flood ; Population Platforms:From Malthus to Reproductive Justice
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: International perspectives in feminist ecocriticism
• ISBN: 1-134-07966-4; 1-134-07959-1; 0-203-52084-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792019703321
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• Serie: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature