Title: New essays in ecofeminist literary criticism /
Authors: Carr, Glynis.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press ; Associated University Presses,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Ecofeminism in literature.; Feminism and literature.; Nature in literature.; Feminist literary criticism.; American literature Women authors History and criticism.; English literature Women authors History and criticism; American literature Women authors History and criticism Theory, etc.; English literature Women authors History and criticism Theory, etc.
Abstract: "Ecofeminist activism and scholarship are becoming increasingly conspicuous as women and men resist the waste, injustice, and cultural impoverishment of global capitalism while attempting to preserve indigenous lifeways or create new, sustainable ones. In the process, feminist literary and cultural ecocriticism has become more interdisciplinary, multicultural, and international." "The present volume gathers new essays in ecofeminist literary criticism and theory that extend this critical trajectory for ecocriticism in the context of social eco-feminist theory and practice."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: "Not by politics alone" : gender and environmental justice in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Cancer / Julie Sze -- A saintly reading of nature's text : Alice Walker's Meridian / Charlotte Zoë Walker -- Intersections of nature and the self in Chicana writing / Benay Blend -- Land and Hawaiian identity : literary activism in Kiana Davenport's Shark dialogues / Mayumi Toyosato -- Strategies for a cross-cultural ecofeminist ethics : interrogating tradition, preserving nature / Greta Gaard -- The birth of a batterer : Isaac Babel's "My first goose" / Steven G. Kellman -- The pastoral rapture of Eula in The Hamlet / Janice C. Crosby -- Persephone's daughters : Jane Smiley's A thousand acres and classic myth / Glynis Carr -- Writing the real : Virginia Woolf and an ecology of language / L. Elizabeth Waller -- "The road of ice" : motion, language, and silence in Marianne Moore / Carol H. Cantrell -- Ecocritical uses of the erotic / Catrin Gersdorf.