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Material Ecocriticism
Serenella Iovino (Edited by), Serpil Oppermann (Edited by), David Abram (Contributions by), Joni Adamson (Contributions by), Jane Bennett (Contributions by), Eli Clare (Contributions by), Stacy Alaimo (Contributions by), Hannes Bergthaller (Contributions by), Jeffrey J. Cohen (Contributions by), Simon Estok (Contributions by), Heather I. Sullivan (Contributions by), Catherine Rigby (Contributions by), Dana Phillips (Contributions by), Timo Maran (Contributions by), Cheryll Glotfelty (Contributions by), Greta Gaard (Contributions by), Lowell Duckert (Contributions by), Wendy Wheeler (Contributions by), Hubert Zapf (Contributions by), Timothy Morton (Contributions by), Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands (Contributions by)
9780253013989
Paperback / softback, published 24 September 2014
368 pages, 19 b&w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.572 kg
With its wide array of topics and theoretical influences, Material Ecocriticism is a helpful starting point for those wondering how new materialist thinking can inform ecocriticism; it would also serve as a pertinent addition to graduate seminars.
Material Ecocriticism offers new ways to analyze language and reality, human and nonhuman life, mind and matter, without falling into well-worn paths of thinking. Bringing ecocriticism closer to the material turn, the contributions to this landmark volume focus on material forces and substances, the agency of things, processes, narratives and stories, and making meaning out of the world. This broad-ranging reflection on contemporary human experience and expression provokes new understandings of the planet to which we are intimately connected.
Foreword: Storied Matter Part I. Material Ecocriticism: Theories and Relations 3. Creative Matter and Creative Mind: Cultural Ecology and Literary Creativity 4. Natural Play, Natural Metaphor and Natural Stories: Biosemiotic Realism 5. The Ecology of Color: Goethe's Materialist Optics and Ecological Posthumanism Heather Sullivan Part II. Narratives of Matter 8. Painful Material Realities, Avoidance, Ecophobia Part III. Politics of Matter 11. Excremental Ecocriticism and the Global Sanitation Crisis Dana Phillips 12. Oceanic Origins, Plastic Activism, and New Materialism at Sea Part IV. Poetics of Matter 15. Of Material Sympathies, Paracelsus, and Whitman 16. Source of Life: Avatar, Amazonia, and an Ecology of Selves 17. The Liminal Space between Things: Epiphany and the Physical Coda: Open Closure Afterword: The Commonwealth of Breath Works Cited
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Introduction: Stories Come to Matter
Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann
1. From Ecological Postmodernism to Material Ecocriticism: Creative Materiality and Narrative Agency Serpil Oppermann
2. On the Limits of Agency: Notes on the Material Turn from a Systems-Theoretical Perspective
Hannes Bergthaller
Hubert Zapf
Wendy Wheeler
6. Bodies of Naples: Stories, Matter, and the Landscapes of Porosity
Serenella Iovino
7. When It Rains
Lowell Duckert
Simon C. Estok
9. Semiotization of Matter: A Hybrid Zone between Biosemiotics and Material Ecocriticism
Timo Maran
10. Pro/Polis: Three Forays into the Political Lives of Bees
Catriona Sandilands
Stacy Alaimo
13. Meditations on Natural Worlds, Disabled Bodies, and a Politics of Cure
Eli Clare
14. Corporeal Fieldwork and Risky Art: Peter Goin and the Making of Nuclear Landscapes
Cheryll Glotfelty
Jane Bennett
Joni Adamson
Timothy Morton
A Diptych on Material Spirituality
18. Spirits that Matter: Pathways towards a Rematerialization of Religion and Spirituality
Kate Rigby
19. Mindful New Materialisms: Buddhist Roots for Material Ecocriticism's Flourishing
Greta Gaard
David Abram
List of Contributors
Index