French 'Ecocritique': Reading Contemporary French Theory and Fiction Ecologically

French Écocritique 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 Écocritique 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.

Author: Stephanie Posthumus
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 11/07/2017
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781487501457

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2018

About the Author
Posthumus, Stephanie: - Stephanie Posthumus is an assistant professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University.

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