CFP: Ecocriticism and the Politics of Nature
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From: Helena Feder <hmff...@hotmail.com>
To: C...@english.upenn.edu <C...@english.upenn.edu>
Date: 06 December 2002 01:37
>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>Ecocriticism and the Politics of Nature
>
>Conference: "The Solid Earth! The Actual World!"
>
>Biannual Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and
>the Environment (ASLE), Boston University, June 3-7, 2003
>
>Ecosocial theorist Mary Mellor's recent work, _Feminism and Ecology_,
>calls for the construction of "a politics of nature" through a critical
>realism, "a 'deep' materialist analysis not only of human-human relations,
>but of human-nature relations."
>
>Papers on any aspect of the role of critical realism in ecocritical work
are
>welcome. A wide range of topics might be explored, including the emergent
>role of ecocriticism in postcolonial studies, the role of embodiment and
>embeddedness in ecocritical theory, and the ecocritic as public
>intellectual.
>
>Please send one-page abstracts by email to hmf...@ucdavis.edu by January
5.
>You can also mail your materials to Helena Feder, English Department, One
>Shields Ave., University of California, Davis, CA 95616.
>
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