Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape

Critical Essays

Edited by Isabel Sobral Campos - Contributions by Cheryl Alison; Benay Blend; Sarah Bouttier; Sarah Giragosian; Craig Santos Perez; John Charles Ryan; Randy Schiff; David Tagnani; Aleksandra Ubertowska; Heather H. Yeung and Isabel Sobral Campos

Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape: Critical Essays surveys ecopoetry from a global perspective across different historical epochs. Its comparative approach foregrounds the importance of ecopoetics within the context of distinct national literatures and cultures to reveal the ubiquitous intersection of poetry with ecocriticism. The collection analyzes environmental problems resulting from the legacies of colonialism and focuses on issues of environmental justice and indigenous issues as well as on the intersection of genocide studies and environmentalism. It also examines ecologically-informed modes of relating to the world. In particular, it engages with interactions between the human and nonhuman as well as mind and matter. Finally, it broadens the scope of place to include both the absent land of exiled peoples, and the urban, built environment.

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Pages: 316 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9

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Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Subjects: Literary Criticism / Poetry, Literary Criticism / Modern / General, Literary Criticism / Critical Theory / Ecocritical Theory

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Critical Essays

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Summary

Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape: Critical Essays surveys ecopoetry from a global perspective across different historical epochs. Its comparative approach foregrounds the importance of ecopoetics within the context of distinct national literatures and cultures to reveal the ubiquitous intersection of poetry with ecocriticism. The collection analyzes environmental problems resulting from the legacies of colonialism and focuses on issues of environmental justice and indigenous issues as well as on the intersection of genocide studies and environmentalism. It also examines ecologically-informed modes of relating to the world. In particular, it engages with interactions between the human and nonhuman as well as mind and matter. Finally, it broadens the scope of place to include both the absent land of exiled peoples, and the urban, built environment.

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Lexington Books

Pages: 316 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9

978-1-4985-4720-8 • Hardback • December 2018 • $135.00 • (£104.00)

978-1-4985-4721-5 • eBook • December 2018 • $128.00 • (£94.00)

Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Subjects: Literary Criticism / Poetry, Literary Criticism / Modern / General, Literary Criticism / Critical Theory / Ecocritical Theory

Author

Isabel Sobral Campos is assistant professor of literature at Montana Tech and the co-founder of Sputnik & Fizzle press.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Trans-National Ecopoetics

Isabel Sobral Campos

Section 1 - An Ecopoetics of Resistance: Transnational Voices of Dissent

Chapter One - “No More Boomerang:” Environment and Technology in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Poetry

John Charles Ryan

Chapter Two - “To a Nation Out of its Mind”: Joy Harjo’s Post-Pastoral

Sarah Giragosian

Chapter Three - Native Chamorro Eco-Poetry in the Work of Cecilia C. T. Perez

Craig Santos Perez

Chapter Four - “Neither Homeland Nor Exile are Words”: “Situated Knowledge” in the Works of Palestinian and Native American Writers

Benay Blend

Chapter Five - Nature as a Counter-Historical Narrative in Holocaust Poetry (Miłosz, Celan, and Pagis)

Aleksandra Ubertowska, Translated by Paweł Wojtas

Section 2 - An Ecopoetics of the Nonhuman: Animal Encounters

Chapter Six - Noticing with Bishop: Curiosity and “The Moose”

Cheryl Alison

Chapter Seven - Nonhuman Voices in Les Murray’s Translations from the Natural World

Sarah Bouttier

Section 3 - An Ecopoetics of Matter: New Materialist Readings

Chapter Eight - Hybrid Alliterative Green: Ecopoetics in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Randy P. Schiff

Chapter Nine - Toward a Material Jeffers: Mysticism and the New Materialism

David Tagnani

Chapter Ten - The Ecology of Metaphor: Will Alexander’s Exobiology as Goddess

Isabel Sobral Campos

Chapter Eleven - Towards an Improper Poetics

Heather H. Yeung

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Reviews

Isabel Sobral Campos’s collection covers vast historical, geographical, and poetic terrain, contributing impressively to the trans-national emphasis in contemporary environmental humanities scholarship. The scope and uniqueness of this ecocritical volume—ranging from Australian aboriginal poetry to Palestinian poetry and Holocaust poetry, but also including modernist and contemporary experimental poetry in the U.S. and the U.K.—is breathtaking.
— Scott Slovic, University of Idaho

By juxtaposing canonical and neglected poets from a wide variety of global contexts, Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape provides a bold and compelling case for the persistence of environmental preoccupations in poetry across cultures and the unique capacity of poetry to assist us in understanding our tragic, fragile, and indispensable relationship to the physical world.
— George Handley, professor of interdisciplinary humanities, Brigham Young University