1st Edition

The Ethics and Aesthetics of Eco-caring Contemporary Debates on Ecofeminism(s)

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

This book applies ecofeminist ethics to the realm of aesthetics, offering instances of how alternative configurations of the self, of nature and of non-human animals can go hand in hand with different and viable experiences and visions of environmental welfare. Preceded by an insightful introduction on the history of ecofeminism and of ecofeminist literary criticism, the chapters included in... Read more

Introduction – The Ethics and Aesthetics of Eco-caring: Contemporary Debates on Ecofeminism(s)  1. Culture and Nature: The Roots of Ecopoetics  2. Inside the Whale: Configurations of An-other Female Subjectivity  3. Isms and Prisms: A Mormon View on Writing about Nature and Women  4. Susan Howe’s Historical Ethics of Space and Puritan Spirituality: An Ecofeminist Reading of Souls of the Labadie Tract  5. Caring for People, Caring for Nature: A Deconstructive Ecofeminist Reading of Sylvia Wantanabe’s Fiction  6. Ecofeminism and Science Fiction: Human-Alien Literary Intersections  7. Ecofeminist Replicants and Aliens: Future Elysiums through an Ethics of Care

Biography

Margarita Estévez-Saá is Professor of English and American Literature at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain. She is the author of A Pilgrimage from Belfast to Santiago de Compostela: The Anatomy of Bernard MacLaverty’s Triumph over Frontiers (with Anne MacCarthy, 2002), and the editor of the Papers on Joyce journal. She has published essays on modernist literature, contemporary Irish literature, and feminist criticism.



María Jesús Lorenzo-Modia is Full Professor of English Literature and Dean of the Faculty of Philology at Universidade da Coruña, Spain. Her work on women’s learning in the sixteenth century was published in The Invention of Female Biography (2017, ed. Gina Walker).