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Auteur(s) : Menrisky, Alexander
Titre(s) : Wild abandon [Texte imprimé] : American literature and the identity politics of ecology / Alexander Menrisky
Publication : Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge university press, copyright 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-254 p.)
Collection : Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
Lien à la collection : Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"The American wilderness narrative, which divides nature from culture, has remained
remarkably persistent despite the rise of ecological science, which emphasizes interconnection
between these spheres. Wild Abandon considers how ecology's interaction with radical
politics of authenticity in the twentieth century has kept that narrative alive in
altered form. As ecology gained political momentum in the 1960s and 1970s, many environmentalists
combined it with ideas borrowed from psychoanalysis and a variety of identity-based
social movements. The result was an identity politics of ecology that framed ecology
itself as an authentic identity position repressed by cultural forms, including social
differences and even selfhood. Through readings of texts by Edward Abbey, Simon Ortiz,
Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Jon Krakauer, among others, Alexander Menrisky
argues that writers have both dramatized and critiqued this tendency, in the process
undermining the concept of authenticity altogether and granting insight into alternative
histories of identity and environment"
Sujet(s) : Littérature américaine -- 20e siècle
Écologie humaine -- Dans la littérature
Identité collective -- Dans la littérature
Écologisme -- Dans la littérature
Littérature et société -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
810.9 (23e éd.) = Littérature américaine de langue anglaise - Histoire et critique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781108909952. - ISBN 1108909957. - ISBN 1108906257. - ISBN 9781108906258. -
ISBN 9781108842563 (erroné). - ISBN 1108842569 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46744626n
Notice n° :
FRBNF46744626
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Table des matières : Modern environmentalism's identity politics. Ecological authenticity and the wilderness
narrative ; The uses of dissolution ; A literary history of environmentalist identity
politics ; The ecological alternative : civilization, selfhood, and environment in
the 1960s. Selfhood and civilization : the new left and beyond ; The (in)authentic
anarchist : the self in postwar environmental writing ; The spontaneous society :
ecology and the politics of self-liberation ; "Feeling like a river" : Edward Abbey's
subjective uncertainty ; Social ecology and psychoanalytic vocabulary ; The superficial
self ; The entheogenic landscape: psychedelic primitives, ecological Indians, and
the American counterculture. The countercultural psyche ; Peter Matthiessen's psychedelics
of water, wind, and stone ; "The hallucinogenic oceans of the mind" from east to
west ; Psychedelic primitivism's presymbolic myth ; Simon Ortiz, oral tradition,
and environmental justice ; Narrative, self, and environment ; The universal wilderness
: race, cultural nationalism, and an identity politics for the state of nature. The
new universalism : environmentalism beyond natural rights ; Cultural nationalism
and racial authenticity ; Racial particularity and ecological authenticity : a reflective
stalemate ; Toni Morrison's skeptical state of nature : race, gender, and wilderness
; An admission of fabrication ; A brief comment on community and environment ; The
essential ecosystem : reproduction, network, and biological reduction. Surfacing's
identity crises : gender and nature in the 1970s ; Depth and nature feminism ; "The
first true human" : narcissistic fantasy and material complexity ; Depth and network
; New materialisms, old narratives ; An appeal to obliteration ; The death of the
supertramp : psychoanalytic narratives and American wilderness. Characterizing Chris
McCandless ; Depth and deep ecology ; The ascetic superhero's boast ; Into the
wild's Freudian narrative ; Fatal dissolutions ; The neoliberal wilderness ; Ecological
consistency.