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Ecology and Life Writing
Herausgeber: Hornung, Alfred | Zhao, Baisheng
American Studies – A Monograph Series, Bd. 203
2013
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Abstract
This volume examines the interrelations between ecological concerns and personal forms of writing in Europe, Asia, and America. It assembles contributions from an international Conference of experts from four continents who provide new insights into the redefinition of the self in contact with nature in different parts of the world. Articles range from the American tradition of nature writing via the ecological traditions of Native Americans and ethnic communities to Asian attitudes of nature worship and the dangers to human and animal lives on planet earth. Beyond the familiar Anglo-American focus, these case studies, interpretations of auto/biographical texts and films begin to bridge the gap between Western and Eastern discourses and propose new approaches to the theoretical basis of ecocriticism and life writing.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
| Zwischenüberschrift | Seite | Aktion | Preis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Table of Contents | V | ||
| Alfred Hornung - Ecology and Life Writing: Preface | IX | ||
| Ecology and Literature | 1 | ||
| Hubert Zapf - Cultural Ecology, Literature, and Life Writing | 3 | ||
| Catrin Gersdorf - Flânerie as Ecocritical Practice: Thoreau, Benjamin, and Sandilands | 27 | ||
| Kay Schaffer - “A Place of Joy and Woe”: Remapping Shanghai in Chen Danyan’s "Shanghai Princess" | 55 | ||
| Yang Jincai - Ecocritical Dimensions in Contemporary Chinese Literary Criticism | 71 | ||
| Xu Dejin - Nature, Culture, and Econarrative in Contemporary Chinese Life Writing: The Case of Qiuyu Yu and His Works | 85 | ||
| Nature and Civilization | 97 | ||
| Birgit Capelle - Asian Aspects of Temporal Experience in Transcendentalist Life Writing | 99 | ||
| Genie Giaimo - Salvation in the Wilderness: Early African American Spiritual Autobiography’s Appropriation of the American Jeremiad, an Eco-Critical Analysis | 109 | ||
| Deborah L. Madsen - Human Exceptionalism: Vizenor’s Autogrammatological Critique of Ecologocentrism | 123 | ||
| Sabine N. Meyer - “If you’re an Indian, why don’t you write nature poetry?” The Environment in Selected Poems of Sherman Alexie | 143 | ||
| Manfred Siebald - Walden Revisited: B. F. Skinner, Annie Dillard, Jon Krakauer | 161 | ||
| Chen Guangchen - Personal Landscape: Shen Congwen and Gao Xingjian’s Autobiographical Writings | 177 | ||
| Trees and Animals | 199 | ||
| Katja Kurz - Life Writing and Environmental Activism in Kenya: The Case of Wangari Maathai | 201 | ||
| Nirmal Selvamony - "tinai" as Tree: Revisiting Tree Worship in Tamil "tinai" Societies | 215 | ||
| Erik Redling - ‘When I Tree Myself’: Paratextual Elements in Fred Wah’s Poetic Life Writings | 241 | ||
| Sabine Kim - For the Birds: Poetry, Bird-Watching and Ethical Attentiveness | 257 | ||
| Mark Berninger - Wild Lives: Hybrid Versions of the Animal Encounter in Trans-Pacific Popular Culture | 269 | ||
| Tim Lanzendörfer - Ecological Life Writing: E.O. Wilson’s “Trailhead” and the Collective Life | 287 | ||
| Environmental and Ethical Ends | 297 | ||
| Alfred Hornung - Chinese Garden Culture and Ecological Life Writing | 299 | ||
| Greg Garrard - Nature Cures? Narratives of Personal and Ecological Health | 309 | ||
| Simon C. Estok - Situational Affective Ethics: Self-Writing and Ecocriticism | 321 | ||
| Axel Goodbody - Life Writing and Nature Writing in W.G. Sebald’s "Rings of Saturn" | 335 | ||
| Serpil Oppermann - An Ecology of a Surfictional Self: Raymond Federman’s Inventions | 353 | ||
| Bilge Mutluay Cetintas - (Un)Natural Disasters and (Re)Conciliations: Maxine Hong Kingston’s "The Fifth Book of Peace" | 375 | ||
| Scott Slovic - Introspection, Social Transformation, and the Trans-scalar Imaginary: An Interview with American Photographer Chris Jordan | 385 | ||
| Contributors | 411 |
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