Literature and Environment

Buell, Lawrence; Heise, Ursula K.; Thornber, Karen

doi:10.1146/annurev-environ-111109-144855

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“…2 It is not difficult to imagine how such an awareness developed into an idea of her birth being a "crime," as is expressed at the beginning of "Two Languages, Two Souls." Instead of lamenting, Morisaki faces the fact of her not having a place either in Korea or Japan and accepts her diasporic being.…”

Section: Uninstitutionalizing Languagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Amino). 4 In such travels she came across uninstitutionalized ways of being, ways that had survived imperial, patriarchal, centripetal ideologies as well as the succeeding technocratic modernization that swept through Japan.…”

Section: Uninstitutionalizing Languagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Both queer ecofeminism and queer ecology emphasize a queer perspective in ecologies. 2 Based on Gaard's paper presenting the original intent of queer ecofeminism, this chapter discusses Hiromi Ito's "Matsuri [Festival]," from the book Noro to Saniwa [Noro and Saniwa] penned by Hiromi Ito and Chizuko Ueno. My main purpose is to illustrate the ways in which we might see the poem as an embodiment of Gaard's queer ecofeminism, by showing us an ecotopia where women, nonhuman-nature, and queers are emancipated and liberated.…”

Section: Ishimure and Ecocriticismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A saw is a saw, and a tree is a tree. When Jane Bennett, discussing our bodily enmeshments with the material world, asks, "[W]ould we continue to produce and consume in the same violently reckless ways" if we took these enmeshments seriously, 2 we are forced to question with her the very meaning of the term "violence." In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Barack Obama commented that "[a] non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies."…”

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East Asian Ecocriticisms

Estok¹,

Kim²

2013

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Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment focuses on new research in the Environmental Humanities, particularly work with a rhetorical or literary dimension. Books in this series seek to explore how ideas of nature and environmental concerns are expressed in different cultural contexts and at different historical moments. They investigate how cultural assumptions and practices as well as social structures and institutions shape conceptions of nature, the natural, species boundaries, uses of plants, animals and natural resources, the human body in its environmental dimensions, environmental health and illness, and relations between nature and technology. In turn, the series aims to make visible how concepts of nature and forms of environmentalist thought and representation arise from the confluence of a community's ecological and social conditions with its cultural assumptions, perceptions and institutions. Such assumptions and institutions help to make some environmental crises visible and conceal others, confer social and cultural significance on certain ecological changes and risk scenarios, and shape possible responses to them.Across a wide range of historical moments and cultural communities, the verbal, visual and performing arts have helped to give expression to such concerns, but cultural assumptions also underlie legal, medical, religious, technological and media-based engagements with environmental issues. Books in this series will analyze how literatures and cultures of nature form and dissolve; how cultures map nature, literally and metaphorically; how cultures of nature rooted in particular places develop dimensions beyond that place (e.g. in the virtual realm); and what practical differences such literatures and cultures make for human uses of the environment and for historical reshapings of nature. The core of the series lies in literary and cultural studies, but it also embraces work that reaches out from that core to establish connections to related research in art history, anthropology, communication, history, philosophy, environmental psychology, media studies and cultural geography.A great deal of work in the Environmental Humanities to date has focused on the United States and Britain and on the last two centuries. Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment seeks to build on new research in these areas, but also and in particular aims to make visible projects that address the relationship between culture and environmentalism from a comparative perspective, or that engage with regions, cultures or historical moments beyond the modern period in Britain and the US. The series also includes work that, reaching beyond national and majority cultures, focuses on emergent cultures, subcultures and minority cultures in their engagements with environmental issues. In some cases, such work was originally written in a language other than English and subsequently translated for publication in

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“…1 Further, in their influential study of human-animal relations, Buel, Heise, and Torenber suggest that these so-called anthropocentric ideologies are followed by the devaluation of non-human animals while allotting a high value to humans and their culture. 2 There are also scholars who argue that humanity's treatment of other species is too disturbing to be even termed a relationship. Drawing upon Berger's argument, Bleakley, in his book The Animalizing Imagination, asserts that there is no real contact between humans and animals and that we are moving from engaging with animals to ignoring them in our life.…”

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