Lexington Books
Pages: 220
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4985-1731-7 • Hardback • December 2015 • $114.00 • (£88.00)
978-1-4985-1732-4 • eBook • December 2015 • $108.00 • (£83.00)
Douglas Boudreau is associate professor of French at Mercyhurst University.
Marnie Sullivan is assistant professor of English at Mercyhurst University.
Introduction
Douglas L. Boudreau and Marnie M. Sullivan
Chapter 1: French Ecological Fiction in the Classroom
Roland Racevskis
Chapter 2: George Sand’s réalisme vert: Towards an Ecocritical Reading of Le meunier d’Angibault
Annie K. Smart
Chapter 3: The Deep Ecology of “Evil:” Baudelaire and Holism
James Whitlark
Chapter 4: Acadia as Habitat: Environment and Identity in the Work of Antonine Maillet
Douglas L. Boudreau
Chapter 5 : Ecocritical Pedagogy for Teaching Mariama Bâ’s Une si longue lettre and Le Chant Ecarlate
Marnie M. Sullivan
Chapter 6: An Ecological Identity: Poetics, Nature, and Identity in L’esclave vieil homme et le molosse
Nathan Germain
Chapter 7: Waste Treatment: Resource Recovery in The Gleaners and I and La Clôture
Laura Call
Chapter 8: An Eco-critical Reading of J.-C. Rufin’s Le Parfum d’Adam
Gilles Mossière
Afterword
Douglas L. Boudreau and Marnie M. Sullivan
About the Contributors
Index
Boudreau and Sullivan, hearkening to Stephanie Posthumus as the foremost proponent of French ecocriticism, highlight ‘the importance of the language of expression in writing about nature’. The editors’ meditations on treating works as French or francophone draw attention to the value of inclusivity and broadened thinking for a volume that takes inspiration from French interest in inhabited environments. . . .The volume, which is enhanced by the granularity of its nine-page index, ultimately succeeds in offering assorted food for thought about utilizing ecocriticism to enrich our understanding of connections between cultural production and ecological conditions in diverse environments.
— Modern Language Review
Ecocritical Approaches to Literature in French makes a valuable contribution to this growing field.
— H-France Review
“Ecocritical Approaches to Literature in French is a fascinating read, particularly for scholars interested in teaching French literature from an ecological perspective. The contributors offer close readings and pedagogical methods for incorporating specific texts into the classroom, a welcome supplement for teachers at the college level.”
— Christie Wampole, Princeton University
"Ecocritical Approaches to Literature in French beautifully illustrates the challenges and promises of bringing together what have been so far two divergent fields: ecocriticism and French and Francophone literary studies. Its range of essays will appeal to colleagues who are looking to bring ecocriticism into the classroom, and who are interested in new readings of work by writers as diverse as Charles Baudelaire, Patrick Chamoiseau, Antonine Maillet, Jean Rolin Jean-Christophe Rufin, and George Sand."
— Stephanie Posthumus, McGill University