Review Essay: Steps to a Material Ecocriticism. The Recent Literature about the “New Materialisms” and its Impact on Ecocritical Theory

• Autores: Serenella Iovino
• Localización: Ecozon@ [Ecozona]: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, ISSN-e 2171-9594, Vol. 3, N. 1, 2012 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Writing catastrophes: cross-disciplinary perspectives on the semantics of natural and anthropogenic disasters), págs. 134-145
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.37536/ecozona.2012.3.1.461

• Es reseña de:

  • Material Feminisms

    Stacy Alaimo (ed. lit.), Susan Hekman (ed. lit.)

    Bloomington, Indiana (USA) : Indiana University Press, 2008

  • Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self

    Stacy Alaimo

    Bloomington, Indiana (USA) : Indiana University Press, 2010

  • Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things

    Jane Bennett

    Durham, North Carolina (USA) ; London (UK) : Duke University Press

  • Becoming Animal

    David Abram

    New York (USA) : Vintage Books, 2010

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• Resumen

  • This bibliographic essay illustrates the proliferation of studies about the "new materialisms" and examines the potential influx of this conceptual trend on ecocriticism. In the discussion, in particular, I provide a comparative analysis of four books: Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman, Eds. "Material Feminisms" (Bloomington: Indiana U P, 2008), Stacy Alaimo, "Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self" (Bloomington: Indiana U P, 2010), Jane Bennett, "Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things" (Durham and London: Duke U P, 2010), David Abram, "Becoming Animal" (New York: Vintage Books, 2010).

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