American ecopoetries of migration explore the conflicted relationships of mobile subjects to the nonhuman world and thus offer valuable environmental insight for our current age of mass mobility and global ecological crisis. In Ecopoetic Place-Making, Judith Rauscher analyzes the works of five contemporary American poets of migration, drawing from ecocriticism and mobility studies. The poets discussed in her study challenge exclusionary notions of place-attachment and engage in ecopoetic place-making from different perspectives of mobility, testifying to the potential of poetry as a means of conceptualizing alternative environmental imaginaries for our contemporary world on the move.
Price: $45.00
Pages: 280
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Literary Ecologies
Publication Date:
24 October 2023
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837669343
Format: Paperback
»On the whole, the book offers both students and scholars a meticulous and excellent approach to the concepts and debates within environmental literature and ecocriticism. Moreover, »Ecopoetics and Place-Making« is an auspicious inauguration for the series, and it is more than fair to look forward to reading the books that will follow.«
Judith Rauscher is assistant professor (Juniorprofessorin) of American Literature and Culture at the Universität zu Köln. She holds an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College, an M.A. in English and American Studies and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg. Her research focuses on contemporary American poetry, ecocriticism, Mobility Studies, American speculative fiction, and Gender Studies.
Frontmatter 1
Editorial 2
Contents 5
Acknowledgements 7
Introduction: Ecopoetic Place-Making in Contemporary American Poetry 11
1. Decolonizing Environmental Pedagogy: Rerouted Knowledges and Participatory Ecopoetics in the Poetry of Craig Santos Perez 47
2. Situating Ecological Agency: Anthropocene Subjectivity and Settler Place-Making in the Poetry of Juliana Spahr 87
3. Lyricizing the Planetary Epic: Genre Mixing and Discrepancies of Scale in Derek Walcott's Omeros 129
4. Reimagining Ecological Citizenship: Environmental Nostalgia and Diasporic Intimacy in the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali 167
5. Queering Ecological Desire: Post-Mobility and Apocalyptic Environmental Ethics in the Poetry of Etel Adnan 207
Conclusion: Environmental Cultures of Im/Mobility 245
Works Cited 255
