Ecocriticism
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Geologic Imaginations: Environments through Deep Time in New Zealand Literature. Teresa Shewry, University of California, Santa Barbara
I engage the poetics and politics of deep time scales in environmental literatures, looking at how contemporary New Zealand writers sketch the long swathes of time through which environments have journeyed, and how they bring past life worlds to bear on their readings of the present and expectations of the future.
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When a Bear Charges or Artists Paint: The Land and Storywork in Contemporary Canadian Nature Art. Troy Patenaude, University of Calgary
This paper explores the Indigenous “storywork” relationship between nature art of four Canadian visual artists, some of their viewers, and the vast Canadian land beneath their feet. I argue that this complex relationship contributes to social-ecological resilience in Canada.
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Personifying Land/Botanifying Man: Landscapes of War in Silko's Ceremony. Lacy Davis, Texas Tech University
Contrasting Silko's representations of the physical landscapes of the Pacific Theatre of WWII against depictions of the deserts of New Mexico and the mental terrain of her protagonist, this paper examines the complex relationship between human beings and the physical environment during wartime.
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Toward Ecological Enlightenment: An Examination of Buddhism and Ecology in Les Neuf Consciences du Malfini. Rachel Paparone, University of Georgia
The combination of Buddhist traditions and an ecological crisis allow Chamoiseau to deliver the true moral of Les Neuf Consciences du Malfini: in order to restore integrity to the natural world one must look to the natural world as a guide on the path towards ecological enlightenment.
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