Marxism and Ecocriticism

Newman, Lance

doi:10.1093/isle/9.2.1

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“…"It is entirely possible…to accept social constructionist arguments while also insisting that the material realm is irreducible to culture or discourse," they conclude, noting the methodological potential of such imbrications (p. 27). A possible forerunner of such a capacious procedure, as Lance Newman (2002) points out, is Karl Marx's study of "the soil science of his day", which had allowed him "to apply fundamentally ecological modes of analysis to the ways that human societies have organized themselves within nature" (p. 12). 6 Optimistically, a new materialist consideration of the tropical forest as a structuring force in the imagination undergirding Philippine revolutionary literature may testify to its dexterity as regards these possibilities.…”

Section: Revolutionary Poeticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Into the Woods: Toward a Material Poetics of the Tropical Forest in Philippine Literature

Diaz

2022

eTropic

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This study considers how the tropical forest as a material and discursive space mediates the ways in which history is imagined in Philippine literary texts and literary production. Mobilizing ideas from new materialism, material poetics, and tropicality, the paper looks at generative moments from indigenous and revolutionary literature—two broad traditions whose conditions of possibility are inextricably linked with the materiality of the tropical forest and thus inevitably evince the structuring force of such nonhuman agencies and subjectivities. By disclosing how the “more than human” is constitutive of history and historical subject formation, it seeks to foreground the agency of Philippine forests in actively and collaboratively contesting the catastrophic violence of capital and state-making on people and the natural world.

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Section: Revolutionary Poeticsmentioning

confidence: 99%