Ecocritical Approaches to Literature in French

Douglas L. Boudreau, Marnie M. Sullivan

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781498517324
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: French Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Ecocriticism is a critical approach that focuses on the representation in literature of the non-human elements of the natural world, a method of inquiry that has been largely limited to literature written in English. The aim of Ecocritical Approaches to Literature in French is twofold: to introduce ecocriticism to scholars of French-language literature, and to open ecocriticism to the vision and voices of French literature.The chapters look at work not only from France, but also from North America, the Caribbean, and Africa. The discussions include fiction, poetry, film and pedagogy. The goal of the collection is to demonstrate not only the applicability of ecocritical inquiry to literature in French, but to demonstrate the possibilities of ecocritical theory on the study of French literature, and also for ecocriticism itself. This collection will be a useful resource both for scholars of French-language literature and also for ecocritics who may have had only limited contact with literatures in languages other than English.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Introduction
• French Ecological Fiction in the Classroom
• George Sand’s réalisme vert
• The Deep Ecology of “Evil”
• Acadia as Habitat
• Ecocritical Pedagogy for Teaching Mariama Bâ’s Une si longue lettre and Le Chant Ecarlate
• An Ecological Identity
• Waste Treatment
• An Ecocritical Reading of Jean-Christophe Rufin’s Le Parfum d’Adam
• Afterword
• Index
• About the Contributors