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Dwellings of Enchantment

Writing and Reenchanting the Earth

Edited by Bénédicte Meillon - Contributions by Joni Adamson; Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves; Françoise Besson; Claire Cazajous-Aujé; Antonio Cuadrado-Fernandez; Carmen Flys-Junquera; Yves-Charles Grandjeat; Wendy Harding; Linda Hogan; Charles Holdefer; Alan G. Johnson; Tom Lynch; Joshua Mabie; Jessica Maufort; Bénédicte Meillon; Noémie Moutel; Rachel Hoscin Nisbet; Randal Roorda; Anne Simon and Frédérique Spill

Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth offers ecocritical and ecopoetic readings that focus on multispecies dwellings of enchantment and reenchant our rapport with the more-than-human world. It sheds light on the marvelous entanglements between humans and other life forms coexisting with us–entanglements that, when fully perceived, call onto humans to shift perspectives on both the causes and solutions to current ecological crises. Working against the disenchantment of humans’ relationships with and perceptions of the world entailed by a modern ontology, this book illustrates the power of ecopoetics to attune humans to the vibrant matter both within and outside of us. Braiding indigenous with non-indigenous worldviews, this book tackles ecopoetics emerging from varying locations in the world. It underscores the postmodernist, remythologizing processes going on in many ecopoetic texts, via magical realist modes and mythopoeia.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 394 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9
978-1-7936-3159-6 • Hardback • October 2020 • $146.00 • (£112.00)
Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Subjects: Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Nature, Literary Criticism / General, Literary Criticism / Critical Theory / Ecocritical Theory, Nature / Ecology

Bénédicte Meillon is associate professor of English studies at the Université of Perpignan Via Domitia.

Foreword: Ecopoetics at the Tipping Point by Joni Adamson

Introduction: What Matters Sings: Ecopoetics of Reenchantment by Bénédicte Meillon

Part I: Theorizing Ecopoetics of (Re)Enchantment

Chapter 1: Necessary Wonder: Promises and Pitfalls of Enchantment by Charles Holdefer

Chapter 2: ‘I Turn Homeward, Wondering’: Reasons for Enchantment by Yves-Charles Grandjeat

Chapter 3: Everyone is Absorbed: Enchanting Substance in VanderMeer’s Southern Reach by Randall Roorda

Chapter 4: Nature’s Speech and Storytelling: The Voice of Wisdom in the Nonhuman by Françoise Besson

Chapter 5: ‘A Place Grown Intense And Holy’: Dwelling in the Enchanted World of Words by Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves

Part II: Dwellings of Enchantment in Literatures of Place, Old, and New

Chapter 6: Wonder, Enchantment, and the New Nature Writing by Joshua Mabie

Chapter 7: Eco-memoir, Belonging, and the Ecopoetics of Settler Colonial Enchantment by Tom Lynch

Chapter 8: Aesthetic Choices for the Anthropocene Era in the New American Literature of Place by Wendy Harding

Part III: Of Animal Elusiveness, Death, and Wonder: Zoopoetics and the Quest for Common Ground

Chapter 9: Zoopoethics: Literature Challenged by Industrial Livestock Farming by Anne Simon

Chapter 10: Ron Rash’s Above the Waterfall, or the Square Root of Wonderful by Frédérique Spill

Chapter 11: A Poetics of Traces in Rick Bass’s Short Stories by Claire Cazajous-Augé

Part IV: Of Postcolonial and Ecofeminist Spellings and Spells: When Magical Realism Challenges Modern Ontology and Epistemology

Chapter 12: Conversations with the Living World: Mutual Discovery and Enchantment by Carmen Flys Junquera

Chapter 13: Writing a Way Home: Liminality, Magical Realism, and the Building of a Biotic Communitas in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms and People of the Whale by Bénédicte Meillon

Chapter 14: The Magic Realist Compost in the Anthropocene: Improbable Assemblages in Canadian and Australian Fiction by Jessica Maufort

Chapter 15: Learning to Live in the Anthropocene: Orality as Recycling in Contemporary Latin American Indigenous Poetry by Antonio Cuadrado-Fernandez

Chapter 16: Shadows of Enchantment in Indian Forest Fiction: Mahasweta Devi’s “The Hunt” and Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey by Alan Johnson

Chapter 17: Anna Livia’s Anthropocene Ecopoetics by Rachel Nisbet

Chapter 18: Theodore Roszak's Glade in The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein: An Ecofeminist Dwelling of Emancipation by Noémie Moutel

Part V: Writers’ Corner: An Essay by Chickasaw Writer and Poet Linda Hogan

Chapter 19: Ways of the Cranes by Linda Hogan

About the Contributors

The diverse and nuanced essays of this superb collection demonstrate a shared ecopoetic truth: the more fully we humans dwell among the non-humans of our world, the greater their capacity to reenchant our imaginations and to remake us in their image.


— Terry Harpold, University of Florida


Tracing the intersecting maps of human creativity and material imagination, Dwellings on Enchantment does justice to the inner chanting of the planet. This bookis a therapy against the isolation of the human self, pointing out possible antidotes to the “great derangement” of the Anthropocene.


— Serenella Iovino, Professor of Italian Studies and Environmental Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, co-editor of Material Ecocriticism


Perhaps it is not the earth itself that requires reenchantment but rather the human spirit. This exciting collection explores how ecocriticism and literary expression seek to inspire the mind to recognize the beauty and mystery of a planet that has never ceased to be enchanting.


— Scott Slovic, University Distinguished Professor of environmental humanities, University of Idaho


To challenge the ongoing dis-enchantment of more-than-human environments and the dispassionate road humanity has taken, the essays in this impressive volume highlight the significance of humanity’s internal relations with all planetary life, inviting usto reenchant the world now struggling in the darkness of the Anthropocene.


— Serpil Oppermann, Cappadocia University


Dwellings of Enchantment

Writing and Reenchanting the Earth

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  • Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth offers ecocritical and ecopoetic readings that focus on multispecies dwellings of enchantment and reenchant our rapport with the more-than-human world. It sheds light on the marvelous entanglements between humans and other life forms coexisting with us–entanglements that, when fully perceived, call onto humans to shift perspectives on both the causes and solutions to current ecological crises. Working against the disenchantment of humans’ relationships with and perceptions of the world entailed by a modern ontology, this book illustrates the power of ecopoetics to attune humans to the vibrant matter both within and outside of us. Braiding indigenous with non-indigenous worldviews, this book tackles ecopoetics emerging from varying locations in the world. It underscores the postmodernist, remythologizing processes going on in many ecopoetic texts, via magical realist modes and mythopoeia.

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  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 394 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9
    978-1-7936-3159-6 • Hardback • October 2020 • $146.00 • (£112.00)
    Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Subjects: Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Nature, Literary Criticism / General, Literary Criticism / Critical Theory / Ecocritical Theory, Nature / Ecology
Author
Author
  • Bénédicte Meillon is associate professor of English studies at the Université of Perpignan Via Domitia.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Foreword: Ecopoetics at the Tipping Point by Joni Adamson

    Introduction: What Matters Sings: Ecopoetics of Reenchantment by Bénédicte Meillon

    Part I: Theorizing Ecopoetics of (Re)Enchantment

    Chapter 1: Necessary Wonder: Promises and Pitfalls of Enchantment by Charles Holdefer

    Chapter 2: ‘I Turn Homeward, Wondering’: Reasons for Enchantment by Yves-Charles Grandjeat

    Chapter 3: Everyone is Absorbed: Enchanting Substance in VanderMeer’s Southern Reach by Randall Roorda

    Chapter 4: Nature’s Speech and Storytelling: The Voice of Wisdom in the Nonhuman by Françoise Besson

    Chapter 5: ‘A Place Grown Intense And Holy’: Dwelling in the Enchanted World of Words by Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves

    Part II: Dwellings of Enchantment in Literatures of Place, Old, and New

    Chapter 6: Wonder, Enchantment, and the New Nature Writing by Joshua Mabie

    Chapter 7: Eco-memoir, Belonging, and the Ecopoetics of Settler Colonial Enchantment by Tom Lynch

    Chapter 8: Aesthetic Choices for the Anthropocene Era in the New American Literature of Place by Wendy Harding

    Part III: Of Animal Elusiveness, Death, and Wonder: Zoopoetics and the Quest for Common Ground

    Chapter 9: Zoopoethics: Literature Challenged by Industrial Livestock Farming by Anne Simon

    Chapter 10: Ron Rash’s Above the Waterfall, or the Square Root of Wonderful by Frédérique Spill

    Chapter 11: A Poetics of Traces in Rick Bass’s Short Stories by Claire Cazajous-Augé

    Part IV: Of Postcolonial and Ecofeminist Spellings and Spells: When Magical Realism Challenges Modern Ontology and Epistemology

    Chapter 12: Conversations with the Living World: Mutual Discovery and Enchantment by Carmen Flys Junquera

    Chapter 13: Writing a Way Home: Liminality, Magical Realism, and the Building of a Biotic Communitas in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms and People of the Whale by Bénédicte Meillon

    Chapter 14: The Magic Realist Compost in the Anthropocene: Improbable Assemblages in Canadian and Australian Fiction by Jessica Maufort

    Chapter 15: Learning to Live in the Anthropocene: Orality as Recycling in Contemporary Latin American Indigenous Poetry by Antonio Cuadrado-Fernandez

    Chapter 16: Shadows of Enchantment in Indian Forest Fiction: Mahasweta Devi’s “The Hunt” and Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey by Alan Johnson

    Chapter 17: Anna Livia’s Anthropocene Ecopoetics by Rachel Nisbet

    Chapter 18: Theodore Roszak's Glade in The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein: An Ecofeminist Dwelling of Emancipation by Noémie Moutel

    Part V: Writers’ Corner: An Essay by Chickasaw Writer and Poet Linda Hogan

    Chapter 19: Ways of the Cranes by Linda Hogan

    About the Contributors

Reviews
Reviews
  • The diverse and nuanced essays of this superb collection demonstrate a shared ecopoetic truth: the more fully we humans dwell among the non-humans of our world, the greater their capacity to reenchant our imaginations and to remake us in their image.


    — Terry Harpold, University of Florida


    Tracing the intersecting maps of human creativity and material imagination, Dwellings on Enchantment does justice to the inner chanting of the planet. This bookis a therapy against the isolation of the human self, pointing out possible antidotes to the “great derangement” of the Anthropocene.


    — Serenella Iovino, Professor of Italian Studies and Environmental Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, co-editor of Material Ecocriticism


    Perhaps it is not the earth itself that requires reenchantment but rather the human spirit. This exciting collection explores how ecocriticism and literary expression seek to inspire the mind to recognize the beauty and mystery of a planet that has never ceased to be enchanting.


    — Scott Slovic, University Distinguished Professor of environmental humanities, University of Idaho


    To challenge the ongoing dis-enchantment of more-than-human environments and the dispassionate road humanity has taken, the essays in this impressive volume highlight the significance of humanity’s internal relations with all planetary life, inviting usto reenchant the world now struggling in the darkness of the Anthropocene.


    — Serpil Oppermann, Cappadocia University


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