Ecocriticism Flashcards
Ecocriticism
interdisciplinary: art and literature in the context of environmental issues and nature
not a theory in itself, addresses environmental issues through various theories. (In
Andermann: Cultural Analysis, Marxism, Postcolonial Theories)
Includes an ethical stance
Chronotope
Chronos - Zeit
Topos - Ort Ding
Strasse: Linerare Bewegung in die Zukunft
Regionalist novels
In the regionalist novel, the natural world acquires voice and agency
so: the regionalist novels contain the discourse of extractivism but also a counterpart: a
countermovement that engages human and nonhuman forces to combat the advance
of extractivism: a politics of contagion, mutation, community
Extractivism
mass exploitation and destruction of
Nature practised by colonizers