Studies in Green: Teaching Ecological Crime Fiction

Walton, Samantha

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Teaching Crime Fiction 2018

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-90608-9_8

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Studies in Green: Teaching Ecological Crime Fiction

Samantha Walton

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“…Nevertheless, there is also a substantial corpus of crime novels from around the world that investigate and interrogate issues of environmental damage and ecological (in)justice. These novels have been identified variously as environmental crime fiction, “nature‐oriented mystery novels” (Murphy 143), “eco‐thrillers” (McKie), “ econoir ” (K. Bishop 9), “ecologically conscious detective fiction” (Bandyopadhyay 70), and “ecological crime fiction” (Walton 115).…”

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CrimateFiction and the Environmental Imagination of Place

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2021

The J of Popular Culture

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HE THEME OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION AND HUMAN-INDUCEDclimate change has become a staple of fiction and visual culture in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Indeed, the seeming ubiquity of environmental and climate fiction-or cli-fi for short-has led Mads Rosendahl Thomsen to identify it as one of four prominent themes in contemporary world literature (98,. 1 To date, critical attention to this phenomenon has centered primarily on "'literary' and middle-brow" fiction (Trexler 7) as well as science fiction (Milner and Burgmann). Nevertheless, there is also a substantial corpus of crime novels from around the world that investigate and interrogate issues of environmental damage and ecological (in)justice. These novels have been identified variously as environmental crime fiction, "nature-oriented mystery novels" (Murphy 143), "eco-thrillers" (McKie), "econoir" (K. Bishop 9), "ecologically conscious detective fiction" (Bandyopadhyay 70), and "ecological crime fiction" (Walton 115).These works of environmental, etc., crime fiction have not gone unnoticed by ecocritical scholars or by crime fiction scholars who employ ecocritical approaches to these novels. At its most basic, ecocriticism combines literary, film, and art analysis with environmental studies in order to better comprehend the ways in which the imaginative arts facilitate or, indeed, hinder interspecies connections (Buell et al. 418). Ecocritical approaches range from the study of representations of nature, understood as both wilderness and built environments (Buell, Future 22), to exploring expressions of environmental concerns (land degradation, pollution, species extinction, etc.) and,

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Of Capitalism and Animal Oppression: Exploring the Ecological Engagements with Select Crime Fictions of Sunil Gangopadhyay and Samaresh Majumdar

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2021

South Asian Review

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Studies in Green: Teaching Ecological Crime Fiction

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Of Capitalism and Animal Oppression: Exploring the Ecological Engagements with Select Crime Fictions of Sunil Gangopadhyay and Samaresh Majumdar

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