Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction [electronic resource] : A Poetics of Earth /
Curry, A.author.
This pioneering study is the first full-length treatment of feminism and the environment in children's literature. Drawing on the history, philosophy and ethics of ecofeminism, it examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic landscapes in young adult fiction reflect contemporary attitudes towards environmental crisis and human responsibility.
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Cover; Contents; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Ecofeminism and Environmental Crisis; 1 A 'Poetics of Planet': Apocalypse and Our Post-Natural Future; 2 Ideologies of Advancement: Writing on the Body; 3 Regimes of Gender Difference: An Ecofeminist Ethic of Care; 4 Situated Knowledges: Competing Epistemological Frameworks; 5 A Poetics of Earth: Ecofeminist Spiritualities; 6 Deep Ecology or Ecofeminism: The Embodied, Embedded Hybrid; Conclusion: Apocalypse as Ecopoiesis; Notes; Bibliography; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This pioneering study is the first full-length treatment of feminism and the environment in children's literature. Drawing on the history, philosophy and ethics of ecofeminism, it examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic landscapes in young adult fiction reflect contemporary attitudes towards environmental crisis and human responsibility.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—History and criticism.
Children's literature.
British literature.
Poetry.
Literature—Philosophy.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary History.
Children's Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Literary Theory.