Words for a Small Planet

Ecocritical Views

Nanette Norris

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9780739171592
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Feminist Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Ecocriticism has matured beyond nature writing, beyond writing about nature. The essays in this volume look at the broader cultural, historical, sociological, and psychological implications of ecology in written, visual, and sound culture. In keeping with our sense of a global community, these essays are representative of international scholarship on ecology and the environment, and display the range of insight of which this criticism is capable. Focusing on popular culture, this volume is in the vanguard of our collective reflections on the directions in which our various societies are going.

Table of contents

• Preface
• Introduction: Ecocritical Spring and Evolutionary Discourse
• Chapter One Imaginary Representations and Cultural Performances of Ecocriticism
• Chapter Two Ecological Narrative or Imperial Exploitation: What’s the “Monster” in Animal Planet’s River Monsters?
• Chapter Three The Representation of Nature: An Ecocritical Reading of Juan León Mera’s Cumandá
• Chapter Four Nature Versus War in Letters From the Front, 1914-1918
• Chapter Five A Passage to India: An Ecocritical Reading
• Chapter Six Nature, Women, and the Ecotext: Self-Discovery in Emily Nasrallah’s Short Stories “The Cocoon” and “The Butterfly”
• Chapter Seven Jerusalem in the Poems of Tamim Al-Barghouthi and Yehuda Amichai
• Chapter Eight Omumu Concept of Begetting: A Pro-feminist Lesson from Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
• Chapter Nine The Legacy of the American War in Vietnam: Tim O’Brien’s “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong”
• Chapter Ten National Narrative as Wilderness: An Ecocritical Interpretation of Civilización y barbarie in Modern Argentine Literature
• Chapter Eleven Unnatural Appetites and the Case of the Cannibal in Korean Cinema
• Chapter Twelve Is “Eco” Enough?: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, Wayland Drew’s The Erthring Cycle, and Evolutionary Fiction
• Bibliography
• Recommended Reading
• About the Editor
• About the Contributors