Book chapter
Afterword: Ecocriticism in the Age of Dislocation?
Discovering Francophone Ecoregions of the Long Nineteenth Century, pp.114-121
Routledge, 1st
2026
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Abstract
Anglophone environmental literary criticism has evolved within the bounds of regions and regionalism. Particularly during its early years, ecocriticism privileged local engagement with the natural world as a literary-activist mode. Recent approaches, however, emphasise translocal, transregional, and transnational frameworks. Moreover, intersections with studies of affect, ecofeminism, materiality, postcolonialism, risk, and other areas underlie the continuing theoretical diversification of ecocriticism. An Anthropocene Ecocriticism would confront the disorienting spatio-temporal scales of our age, resist longstanding local-global binarisms, place emphasis on the value of indigenous narratives, and embrace the environmental justice origins of the field.
Details
- Title
- Afterword: Ecocriticism in the Age of Dislocation?
- Creators
- John Charles Ryan
- Contributors
- Daniel A. Finch-Race (Editor of compilation)Valentina Gosetti (Editor of compilation)
- Publication Details
- Discovering Francophone Ecoregions of the Long Nineteenth Century, pp.114-121
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1st
- Identifiers
- 991013385347502368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter