Title: French 'Ecocritique': Reading Contemporary French Theory and Fiction Ecologically
Author: Posthumus, Stephanie
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Dimensions: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d
Product Weight: 1.19 lbs.
Language: English
ISBN: 9781487501457

French ?cocritique is the first book-length study of the culturally specific ways in which contemporary French literature and theory raise questions about nature and environment. Stephanie Posthumus's ground-breaking work brings together thinkers such as Guattari, Latour, and Serres with recent ecocritical theories to complicate what might otherwise become a reductive notion of "French ecocriticism." Working across contemporary philosophy and literature, the book defines the concept of the ecological as an attentiveness to specific nature-culture contexts and to a text's many interdiscursive connections. Posthumus identifies four key concepts, ecological subjectivity, ecological dwelling, ecological politics, and ecological ends, for changing how we think about human-nature relations. French ?cocritique highlights the importance of moving beyond canonical ecocritical texts and examining a diversity of cultural and literary traditions for new ways of imagining the environment.

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