Ecopoetics of Reenchantment

Liminal Realism and Poetic Echoes of the Earth

Bénédicte Meillon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

386 Seiten

2024
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-1044-5 (ISBN)

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Ecopoetics of Reenchantment: Liminal Realism and Poetic Echoes of the Earth tackles the reenchantment process at work in a part of contemporary ecoliterature that is marked by the resurfacing of the song of the earth topos and of Gaia images. Focusing on the postmodernist braiding of various indigenous and ecofeminist ontologies, close readings of the animistic and totemic dimensions of the stories at hand lead to the theorizing of liminal realism—a mode that shares much with magical realism but that is approached through an ecopoetic lens, specifically working an interspecies kind of magic, situating readers in-between human and other-than-human worlds. This book promotes a worldview based on relationships of reciprocity and symbiosis. It restores our capacity for wonder together with our sensitive intelligence. Liminal realism adopts a stance in-between scientific, mythical, and poetic worldviews as it calls attention to the soundscapes, odorscapes, feelscapes, and landscapes of the world. This monograph offers an original transdisciplinary and cross-Atlantic take on ecopoetics as it straddles the two academic worlds and sparks a conversation between artworks, theories, and studies emerging from the English-speaking world as well as from Francophone contexts.
Entangling the materiality of language back within the flesh of the world, this book and the texts under study provide insight into the fundamentally sympoietic dimension of ecopoiesis.

Bénédicte Meillon is associate professor at the University of Perpignan and affiliated with the LARCA- CNRS at the Université de Paris.

Part One: From Disenchantment to an Ecopoetics of Reenchantment
Chapter One: Disenchanted, Enchanted, and Reenchanted Worldviews
Chapter Two: Toward an Ecofeminist, Ecopoetic Project of a Rational Reenchantment
Chapter Three: An Ecofeminist Remystification of Narrative: The Many Faces of Gaia in the Anthrop-o(bs)cene
Chapter Four: Sowing the Seeds of an Ecopoet(h)ics of Wonder and Enchantment: Reincorporating Language and the Human into the Flesh and Song of the World

Part Two: Ecopoetic Reenchantment via Liminal Realism
Chapter Five: Why Liminal, Rather than “Magical,” “Spiritual,” “Mystical,” “Ontological,” or “Epistemological” Realism?
Chapter Six: Postcolonial Liminality and (Re)initiation into a Multispecies World: Moving betwixt and between Human and Other-than-Human Realms in Linda Hogan’s Power and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony
Chapter Seven: Post-Pastoral, Non-Indigenous Thought-Experiments with Totemic and Animistic Liminality
Chapter Eight: Liminal Realism and Interspecies Thought-Exper

Erscheinungsdatum	02.04.2024
Reihe/Serie	Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-6669-1044-9 / 1666910449
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-1044-5 / 9781666910445
Zustand	Neuware