Introduction: Queering Ecopoetics

Hume, Angela; Rahimtoola, Samia

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“…5 To further develop the current study of contemporary British and Irish climate change poetry, critics should attach more attention to the issue of climate justice reflected in poetic works, focusing more on the disenfranchised and marginalized groups which may include but are not limited to women, ethnic minorities, flora and fauna, LGBTQ, the Global South, and so forth. Theories of environmental justice, multispecies, and queer ecocriticism are of great help in analyzing the disproportionate influences of climate change (Heise, 2016;Hume & Rahimtoola, 2018;Nixon, 2013). Noticing the diversified impacts of climate change on various groups of humans and non-human beings helps to avoid reducing the crisis to a monolithic cultural and environmental issue.…”

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Climate change in contemporary British and Irish poetry and poetic criticism: Literary representation and environmental activism

Xie

2022

WIREs Climate Change

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Much ink has been spilt on the study of climate change fiction (cli-fi), whereas relatively less attention has been devoted to the burgeoning growth of climate change poetry. As a sub-genre of ecopoetry which aims at dealing with realistic environmental issues and raising readers' awareness to protect the earth, climate change poetry not only represents the ongoing climatic crises in varied ways, be they realistic or imaginative, but also actively engages in provoking ecological responsibilities and environmental activism. This article is an overview of contemporary British and Irish climate change poetry and its literary criticism. Having emerged at the end of the 20th century in the United Kingdom, this poetic genre cuts across literature and environment, rising both as a prominent literary mode and an important environmental phenomenon. Interdisciplinarity, multiple topics, environmental activism, and experimentation are its primary characteristics. Current scholarship on contemporary British and Irish climate change poetry is limited and it mainly adopts theories of ecocriticism and the Anthropocene. Climate justice, poetry and activism, and comparative literary perspective are among promising avenues for the future study of this new poetic genre. Contemporary British and Irish climate change poetry, and its criticism, indicate both poets and critics' efforts to represent and, more importantly, to grapple with ongoing climate change. This article is categorized under: Trans-disciplinary Perspectives > Humanities and the Creative Arts Climate, Nature, and Ethics > Ethics and Climate Change K E Y W O R D S climate change poetry, ecocriticism, ecopoetry, environmental activism, poetic criticism 1 | INTRODUCTION Literary studies have witnessed a rise of "climate change criticism" since 2010. Special issues of journals and conferences devoted to climate change frequently appeared. 1 There has been a considerable amount of scholarship on climate

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Climate change in contemporary British and Irish poetry and poetic criticism: Literary representation and environmental activism

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2022

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Wild Abandon

Menrisky

2020

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The American wilderness narrative, which divides nature from culture, has remained remarkably persistent despite the rise of ecological science, which emphasizes interconnection between these spheres. Wild Abandon considers how ecology's interaction with radical politics of authenticity in the twentieth century has kept that narrative alive in altered form. As ecology gained political momentum in the 1960s and 1970s, many environmentalists combined it with ideas borrowed from psychoanalysis and a variety of identity-based social movements. The result was an identity politics of ecology that framed ecology itself as an authentic identity position repressed by cultural forms, including social differences and even selfhood. Through readings of texts by Edward Abbey, Simon Ortiz, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Jon Krakauer, among others, Alexander Menrisky argues that writers have both dramatized and critiqued this tendency, in the process undermining the concept of authenticity altogether and granting insight into alternative histories of identity and environment.

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Dragon Lovers and Plant Politics: Queering the Nonhuman in Hoa Pham’s Wave and Ellen Van Neerven’s “Water”

Zong¹

2020

ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

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Introduction: Queering Ecopoetics

Cited by 7 publications

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Climate change in contemporary British and Irish poetry and poetic criticism: Literary representation and environmental activism

Climate change in contemporary British and Irish poetry and poetic criticism: Literary representation and environmental activism

Wild Abandon

Dragon Lovers and Plant Politics: Queering the Nonhuman in Hoa Pham’s Wave and Ellen Van Neerven’s “Water”

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