Ecocriticism and the Sense of Place

Lenka Filipova

ISBN 10: 0367754657 / ISBN 13: 9780367754655

Editore: Routledge, 2023

Ecocriticism and the Sense of Place | Lenka Filipova | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2023 | Routledge | EAN 9780367754655 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. Codice articolo 126848814

Riassunto:

The book is an investigation into the ways in which ideas of place are negotiated, contested and refigured in environmental writing at the turn of the twenty-first century. It focuses on the notion of place as a way of interrogating the socio-political and environmental pressures that have been seen as negatively affecting our environments since the advent of modernity, as well as the solutions that have been given as an antidote to those pressures.

Examining a selection of literary representations of place from across the globe, the book illuminates the multilayered and polyvocal ways in which literary works render local and global ecological relations of places. In this way, it problematises more traditional environmentalism and its somewhat essentialised idea of place by intersecting the largely Western discourse of environmental studies with postcolonial and Indigenous studies, thus considering the ways in which forms of emplacement can occur within displacement and dispossession, especially within societies that are dealing with the legacies of colonialism, neocolonial exploitation or international pressure to conform. As such, the work foregrounds the singular processes in which different local/global communities recognise themselves in their diverse approaches to the environment, and gestures towards an environmental politics that is based on an epistemology of contact, connection and difference, and as one, moreover, that recognises its own epistemological limits.

This book will appeal to researchers working in the fields of environmental humanities, postcolonial studies, Indigenous studies and comparative literature.

Informazioni sull'autore:

Lenka Filipova completed her PhD at Freie Universität Berlin.

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: Ecocriticism and the Sense of Place
Casa editrice: Routledge
Data di pubblicazione: 2023
Legatura: Taschenbuch
Condizione: Neu