The environment in French and Francophone literature and film
By: edited by Jeff Persels
Contributors: French Literature Conference (39th : 2011 : University of South Carolina)
Series: French literature series -- v. 39; French literature series -- v. 39.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9789042036130
Subjects: Nature in literature; Congresses; Nature in motion pictures; Ecocriticism; French literature; History and criticism; French Motion pictures
Description: Volume 39 of FLS French Literature Series features ten articles on the topic of the environment in French and Francophone Literature and Film. Contributors engage with the work of such authors, filmakers and cartoonists as Michel Serres, Luc Ferry, Patrice Nganang, Marie Darrieussecq, Yann-Arthus Bertrand and Plantu, and such topics as human zoos, eco-colonialism, queer theory, and the environmental catastrophes of WWI and, globally, of human civilization as recorded in the recent eco-documentary, HOME . Wide-ranging, provocative and topical these articles both broaden and deepen the efficacy.
Notes: Articles originated with the peer-reviewed submissions selected for the 39th annual French Literature Conference.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English and French.
Table of contents: title: Michel Serres, Luc Ferry, and the possibility of a natural contract  -- Jonathan Krell; title: It's a queer thing : early modern French ecocriticism  -- Louisa Mackenzie; title: Discours mythiques et écocritiques en dialogue : l'exemple d'Alexandrie d'Egypte  -- Christophe Ippolito; title: "Please don't feed the natives" : human zoos, colonial desire, and bodies on display  -- Walter Putnam; title: Pilgrims in a toxic land : writing the trenches of the French Great War  -- Claire Keith; title: Café toxique : éco-colonialisme et monoculture dans La terre du café de Patrice Nganang  -- Marie Chantale Mofin Noussi; title: Writing the land/scape : Marie Darrieussecq's Le Pays  -- Stéphanie Posthumus; title: L'environnement dans le dessin de presse de Plantu : étude sémiotique  -- Liliane Toss; title: Eco-lessons : Yann Arthus-Bertrand's HOME and the Republican pedagogical contract  -- Leon Sachs; title: Sciences humaines et écologie : trouver les nouvelles passerelles et les nouveaux mots pour entreprendre un nouveau monde -- Isabelle Delannoy.