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Twentieth century literature, 2011-09, Vol.57 (3-4), p.447-471
Ort / Verlag
Durham: Duke University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2011
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Literature Online (LION)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
[...]the emphasis, in the context of early '90s' identity politics, on existential connections to one's place of origin was easier to reconcile with a kind of eco-cultural awareness that postulated rootedness in place as a sine qua non condition of environmental ethics.1 In its first decade, a good deal of ecocriticism remained virulently antitheoretical and anti-poststructuralist, and to the extent that poststructuralism became conflated with a broader postmodern habitus, ecocriticism defined itself in opposition to what it conceived as the dominant strain in literary and cultural studies.2 As the field grew and diversified, however, it increasingly connected with theoretical developments in the ever more varied array of approaches that characterized literary and cultural studies at the turn of the millennium. Critics from Michael Cohen and Dana Phillips to Timothy Morton have encouraged ecocritics and environmentalists to rethink ecological networks beyond overly simplified assumptions about ecological science, beyond cultural traditions inherited from Romanticism and literary genres passed down from the nineteenth century, and indeed beyond the notion of "nature" such as we know it.3 The question raised by these critics is not only what modes of representation and what kind of aesthetic might adequately convey an understanding of nature that reaches beyond conceptions of harmonious, balanced, and cybernetically self-regulating ecosystems to a more complex view of dynamic biological and ecological processes that often do not produce anything one would want to refer to as harmonious or equilibrated.