...Janet Fiskio In light of Ursula Heise’s recent critiques of the concept of a “sense of place” in ecocriticism as well as the vibrant social movement for food justice emerging in the United States, Fiskio asks whether the concept of place can be reformulated in ways that are inclusive of communities...

...). The trope's polemical function is especially apparent when it is contrasted retrospectively with The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), in which nature is a paralyzing wilderness rather than a theater of self-emancipation. Ecocriticism has failed so far to engage...

...Jessica Hurley Abstract This essay intervenes in current ecocritical debates about the relationship between fiction and environmental risk by analyzing the limits of risk theory in the deep time of the Anthropocene. Although contemporary ecocriticism argues that we must move from apocalyptic...

... broadly, to consider the relevance of his pragmatic turn to modern ecocriticism as it reexamines the role of ethical sentiment in its project going forward. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 References “ Agricultural Survey of the Parish of St. Matthews .” 1840 . Southern Cabinet...

... in the 1970s and 1980s, showing how they manifest the codependence of antireactor activism and environmentalism. She then turns to recent films that look more broadly at the industrial processes involved in nuclear power creation. Drawing on disparate strands of scholarly inquiry— including ecocriticism...

... too is our enabling kinship with it. What remains is an irresolvable fear regarding the uncertain borders between persons and environments. The essay concludes with a consideration of the implications of such a fear for ecocriticism. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Matthew A. The Nature...

...Heather Houser Houser’s essay argues for the centrality of sickness and affect to twenty-first-century environmental consciousness and therefore to ecocriticism, through an analysis of Richard Powers’s novel, The Echo Maker . The essay focuses on wonder, an essential affect for promoting...

...Sarah Ensor In this essay, Ensor suggests that the figure of the spinster can help resolve the problems of futurity that confront queer ecocriticism insofar as the spinster practices an avuncular form of stewardship, tending the future without contributing directly to it. By looking at a series...

... in land and its subjugation of Indigenous peoples to the guardianship of the state—the article explores the ways in which Vollmann’s and Silko’s novels present counternarratives to the law’s story of justified conquest. Combining a law and literature approach with ecocriticism, this article highlights...

... and of the pleasures as well as the perils these histories and experiences contain. This principle is evident in the three books reviewed here. They evince the best of what Americanist ecocriticism has to offer environmental studies, showing how ecocritical scholarship can convey nuanced and nonreductive narratives...

... University Press 2017 What does ecocriticism need? Three recent books spanning subfields of environmental literary study suggest it needs to negotiate the lived experiences of ecological disruption and the processes and institutions that shape those disruptions. Their approach is to read across myriad...

... © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Announcement Call for Papers: Ecocriticism Although ecocriticism was largely developed by Americanists in English departments in the western United States and marked by a coolness toward the theoretical and historicist methods of its day...

... theory, and ecocriticism. In particular, Fitzgerald asks how ecocriticism would change if it centered on Native studies. While not claiming to offer a simple answer, she notes that foregrounding Native peoples in the discussion requires us to reconsider what we mean by terms like “nature...

... of the nineteenth century. Ecocriticism has received the brunt of the attacks directed at the environ- mental humanities. In its early years, ecocriticism seemed premised on a con- tradiction: to use literary study to transcend text and enter the phenomenal world of nature. Too often, ecocritics positioned...

... Ecocriticism), 234–41. Allred, Jeff. Review: Genter, Late Modernism: Art, Culture, and Politics in Cold War America, 882–84. Review: Wilson, Melting-Pot Modernism, 882–84. Andrews, Lindsey. Review: Ahad, Freud Upside Down: African American Lit- erature and Psychoanalytic Culture, 880–82. Review...

...-­focused, and phenomenological preoccupations of older forms of ecocriticism toward an engagement with murkier aspects of our condition: the historical imagination as an alternative resource for a world facing shortages in the feedstocks of modernity; the signifi- cance of new identities...

.... 2007. xii, 216 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95. Where is ecocriticism going? According to Annie Merrill Ingram, Ian Mar- shall, Daniel Philippon, and Adam Sweeting, editors of Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice, their collection of essays rep- resents “some...

.... 2007. xii, 216 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95. Where is ecocriticism going? According to Annie Merrill Ingram, Ian Mar- shall, Daniel Philippon, and Adam Sweeting, editors of Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice, their collection of essays rep- resents “some...

...; paper, $24.95. “Good Observers of Nature”: American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820–1885. By Tina Gianquitto. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2007. xii, 216 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95. Where is ecocriticism going? According to Annie Merrill...

.... 2007. xii, 216 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95. Where is ecocriticism going? According to Annie Merrill Ingram, Ian Mar- shall, Daniel Philippon, and Adam Sweeting, editors of Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice, their collection of essays rep- resents “some...