Literature and Ecofeminism: Intersectional and International Voices

Cover
Half Title
Book Title
Copyright
Table of Contents
Notes on contributors
Foreword
	References
Editor’s preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	References
1 “Like a creature native”: Ophelia’s death and ecofeminism
	References
2 Anna Letitia Barbauld’s ecological sensibility
	Community of virtue
	Fellowship of sense
	Notes
	References
3 Mary Austin’s proto-ecofeminist land ethic in The Ford (1917) and the Owens Valley water controversy
	The Owens Valley water controversy and The Ford
	The Ford and Austin’s proto-ecofeminist ideals
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
4 T.S. Eliot, ecofeminist
	Note
	References
5 Ecofeminist philosophy and issues of identity in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes and Mr. Fortune’s Maggot
	Dualism, hegemonic centrism, and backgrounding
	Identity and feminism in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s novels
	Place, nature, and civilization
	Nature: from possession to “encounter”
	Religion, spirituality, and care
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
6 “Taking mighty strides across the world” Positioning Zora Neale Hurston in the ecofeminist tradition
	Black voices speaking the natural world
	The question of anti-speciesism in Hurston’s literatures
	Anthropology, folklore, and human/nonhuman relationships
	Theorizing animal bodies in Hurston’s folkloric canon
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
7 Ecofeminist sensibilities and rural land literacies in the work of contemporary Appalachian novelist Ann Pancake
	Notes
	References
8 Essentialist tropes in At Play in the Fields of the Lord
	References
9 Cyborg-goddesses, Linda Hogan’s Indios, and Jade Chen’s Mazu’s Body-guards
	References
10 Wolves, singing trees, and replicants Ecofeminist readings of contemporary Spanish novels
	Notes
	References
11 Ecofeminist moorings in globalized India Literary discourse and interpretations
	References
12 The vocation of healing The poetry of Malika Ndlovu
	Gender and nature in South Africa
	But is Ndlovu an ecofeminist poet?
	Strategically essentialist
	Specificities of oppression
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
13 Grace Nichols and Jackie Kay’s corporeal Black Venus Feminist ecocritical realignments
	Notes
	References
Afterword: Ecofeminism through Literary Activism, Hybridity, Connections, and Caring
	Writing as activism
	An ethic of care
	Ecofeminism and postcolonialism
	Shared strategies: hybridity
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Index