“Nature, thou art my goddess”— Edmund’s bold assertion in King Lear could easily inspire and, at the same time, function as a lamentation of the inadequate respect of nature in culture. In this volume, international experts provide multidisciplinary exploration of the insubordinate representations of nature in modern and contemporary literature and art. The work foregrounds the need to reassess how nature is already, and has been for a while, striking back against human domination. From the perspective of literary studies, art, history, media studies, ethics and philosophy, and ethnology and anthropology, "Avenging Nature" highlights the need of assessing insurgent discourses that —converging with counter-discourses of race, gender or class— realize the empowerment of nature from its subaltern position. Acknowledging the argument that cultural representations of nature establish a relationship of domination and exploitation of human discourse over nonhuman reality and that, in consequence, our regard for nature as humanist critics is instrumental and anthropocentric, the present volume advocates for the view that the time has come to finally perceive nature’s vengeance and to critically probe into nature’s ongoing revenge against the exploitation of culture.
págs. 1-6
Bringing Culture Back to Nature: A Biosemiotic Reading of Annie Dillard’s "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"
págs. 9-24
"Have You Seen the Snow Leopard?": Animal Commodity Resistance in Peter Matthiessen’s "The Snow Leopard"
págs. 25-36
"With One Arm I Supported Her: The Other Arm Was the Excutioner's": An Ecofeminist Reading of Anna Kavan's "Ice"
págs. 37-48
“We Were Neither What We Had Been nor What We Would Become”: Frankensteinian Science and Liminal States in Jeff VanderMeer’s "Annihilation"
págs. 49-60
Santiago Rusiñol’s Abandoned Gardens: Between the Poetics of Ruin and the Defense of a Lost Identity
págs. 61-76
Welcoming Cosmos: A Comparative Study of Narrative, Nature, and Cosmopolitanism in "The Wall" and "Pond"
págs. 79-92
A Few Sockeyes and Dying Embers in What Is Left of the Forest: Settler Culture and Changing Views of Nature in Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s Latest Novels
págs. 93-108
The Last Epigram: Christian Bök’s Xenotext
págs. 109-118
A Poetic Correspondence on Ecology and the More– than– Human World: Allan Cooper and Harry Thurston’s "The Deer Yard"
págs. 119-132
Wonders and Threats of Symbiotic Relationships in the Anthropocene: Jeff VanderMeer’s "The Southern Reach Trilogy"
págs. 133-146
Demonizing Nature: Ecocriticism and Popular Fantasy
págs. 149-164
Accepting the X: Uncanny Encounters with Nature and the Wilderness in Jeff Vandermeer’s The Southern Reach Trilogy
págs. 165-178
págs. 179-194
Biohazard, Eco-Terror, and the Rise of Posthuman Dystopia: Re(b)ordering Space to Promote Environmental Ethics in Zal Batmanglij’s "The East" and Cormac McCarthy’s "The Road"
págs. 195-210
Another Inconvenient Truth: Hollywood, the Myth of Green Capitalism
págs. 211-226
págs. 227-238
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