The Ecopoetics of War

Sylvain Belluc, Isabelle Brasme, Guillaume Tanguy (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-58882-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The Ecopoetics of War explores the interrelationality of human and non-human entities in the context of conflict as it is recorded in literature and culture. This collection of essaysdemonstrates the specific and fertile role of literature in representations of war, as it foregrounds the manifold ways in which the borders between human and non-human, including flora, fauna, and technology, become porous, thus questioning traditional onto-epistemological and ethical categories.

Bringing together British, American, and postcolonial studies, The Ecopoetics of War covers a variety of historical periods, geographical areas, and literary genres. Interdisciplinary in its outlook, it intertwines war studies, ecocriticism, literary theory, philosophy, and cultural studies. By analyzing the stylistic and discursive strategies devised by writers to translate the sensory experience of the battlefield, the contributors shed light on the unique capacity of literature to foreground the entanglement of human and nonhuman in the context of armed conflict, and thus unveil an “ecopoetics of war.”

This collection will interest scholars of literature, specialists of war studies and ecocriticism, and any reader interested in such issues as ecowar, ecocide, the Anthropocene, or environmental justice. It can inspire interdisciplinary teaching or research projects, especially in the current context of global environmental crisis.

Autor

Sylvain Belluc is Senior Lecturer in British History and Literature at Nîmes University and Researcher at Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3 University. Isabelle Brasme is Senior Lecturer in British Literature at Nîmes University, Researcher at Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3 University. Guillaume Tanguy is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3 University.

Inhalt

Introduction

Sylvain Belluc, Isabelle Brasme, and Guillaume Tanguy

PART I

Distributive Agency, Shared Vulnerability, and Decomposition

1 Ambrose Bierce’s Civil War Stories and Essays: The Bitterness of a “Cynic” or the Insight of a Neo-Materialist?

Marie-Odile Salati

2 Between Safety and Conflict: War and Nature in a Few Poems of the First World War

Laure-Hélène Anthony-Gerroldt

3 Fantasized Muddy Landscapes: William Faulkner’s World War I

Frédérique Spill

PART II

Resilience, Recomposition, and Reconsideration

4 Plotting the Blitzscape: from Representation to Composition in Rose Macaulay’s The World My Wilderness (1950)

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra

5 Knocking on Delville Wood: The Destruction of Natural Elements During World War I and The Construction of a South African Memory

Gilles Teulié

6 “A Prophetic Vision of the Past:” The Nature of War in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Biblique des Derniers Gestes (2002)

Carine Mardorossian

7 The Dissenting Ecology of War Writing: Capitalocene and Ecocide in the Iraq War Fiction of Phil Klay, Kevin Powers, and Roy Scranton

Julien Brugeron

PART III

Technopoetics

8 The Corpse in the Garden: War and Nature in American Literature, from Walt Whitman to James Ellroy

Benoît Tadié

9 Knights on Wheels: Chivalry and Horsepower in the American Ambulance Corps

Daniel Bowman

10 Submarine Optics in Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop

Rachel Murray

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.12.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
• Zusatzinfo: 8 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• ISBN-10: 1-032-58882-9 / 1032588829
• ISBN-13: 978-1-032-58882-7 / 9781032588827
• Zustand: Neuware