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International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism Copyrighted Material-Taylor & Francis Copyrighted Material-Taylor & Francis International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism Exploring environmental literature from a feminist perspective, this vol- ume presents a diversity of feminist ecocritical approaches to affi rm the continuing contributions, relevance, and necessity of a feminist perspective in environmental literature, culture, and science. Feminist ecocriticism has a substantial history, with roots in second- and third-wave feminist liter- ary criticism, women’s environmental writing and social change activisms, and eco-cultural critique, and yet both feminist and ecofeminist literary perspectives have been marginalized. The essays in this collection build on the belief that the repertoire of violence (conceptual and literal) toward nature and women comprising our daily lives must become central to our ecocritical discussions, and that basic literacy in theories about ethics are fundamental to these discussions. The book off ers an international collec- tion of scholarship that includes ecocritical theory, literary criticism, and ecocultural analyses, bringing a diversity of perspectives in terms of gen- der, sexuality, and race. Reconnecting with the histories of feminist and ecofeminist literary criticism, and utilizing new developments in postcolo- nial ecocriticism, animal studies, queer theory, feminist and gender studies, cross-cultural and international ecocriticism, this timely volume develops a continuing and international feminist ecocritical perspective on literature, language, and culture. Greta Gaard is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, River Falls, USA. Simon C. Estok is Professor of English and Junior Fellow at Sungkyunk- wan University in Seoul, South Korea. Serpil Oppermann is Professor of English at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. Copyrighted Material-Taylor & Francis Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature 1 Environmental Criticism for the 8 The Gothic in Contemporary Twenty-First Century Literature and Popular Culture Edited by Stephanie LeMenager, Pop Goth Teresa Shewry, and Ken Hiltner Edited by Justin D. Edwards and Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet 2 Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature 9 Wallace Stevens and Pre- Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Socratic Philosophy Alexandra Schultheis Moore Metaphysics and the Play of Violence 3 Resistance to Science in Daniel Tompsett Contemporary American Poetry Bryan Walpert 10 Modern Orthodoxies Judaic Imaginative Journeys of the 4 Magic, Science, and Empire in Twentieth Century Postcolonial Literature Lisa Mulman The Alchemical Literary Imagination 11 Eugenics, Literature, and Kathleen J. Renk Culture in Post-war Britain Clare Hanson 5 The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art 12 Postcolonial Readings of Music Performing Identity in World Literature Caroline A. Brown Turning Empire on Its Ear Cameron Fae Bushnell 6 Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican 13 Stanley Cavell, Literature, and Literature Film Danny Méndez The Idea of America Edited by Andrew Taylor and Áine 7 The Cinema and the Origins of Kelly Literary Modernism Andrew Shail 14 William Blake and the Digital Humanities Collaboration, Participation, and Social Media Jason Whittaker and Roger Whitson Copyrighted Material-Taylor & Francis 15 American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship Thinking and Acting in the Local and Global Commons Edited by Joni Adamson and Kimberly N. Ruffi n 16 International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism Edited by Greta Gaard, Simon C. Estok, and Serpil Oppermann Copyrighted Material-Taylor & Francis This page intentionally left blank Copyrighted Material-Taylor & Francis International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism Edited by Greta Gaard, Simon C. Estok, and Serpil Oppermann NEW YORK LONDON Copyrighted Material-Taylor & Francis First published 2013 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2013 Taylor & Francis The right of the editors to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data International perspectives in feminist ecocriticism / edited by Greta Gaard, Simon C. Estok, and Serpil Oppermann. pages cm. — (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature ; 16) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. American literature—Women authors—History and criticism. 2. Ecofeminism in literature. 3. Feminist literary criticism. 4. Ecology in literature. 5. Nature in literature. 6. Feminism and literature—United States. I. Gaard, Greta Claire, editor of compilation. II. Estok, Simon C., editor of compilation. III. Oppermann, Serpil, editor of compilation. PS169.E25I58 2013 810.9'355—dc23 2012047414 ISBN13: 978-0-415-82260-2 (hbk) ISBN13: 978-0-203-52084-0 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon by IBT Global. SFI-01234 SFI label applies to the text stock Copyrighted Material-Taylor & Francis Contents List of Figures xi Acknowledgments xii Foreword xv LINDA HOGAN Introduction 1 GRETA GAARD, SIMON C. ESTOK, AND SERPIL OPPERMANN PART I Feminist Ecocritical Theory 1 Feminist Ecocriticism: A Posthumanist Direction in Ecocritical Trajectory 19 SERPIL OPPERMANN 2 Toxic Epiphanies: Dioxin, Power, and Gendered Bodies in Laura Conti’s Narratives on Seveso 37 SERENELLA IOVINO 3 Treating Objects Like Women: Feminist Ontology and the Question of Essence 56 TIMOTHY MORTON 4 The Ecophobia Hypothesis: Re-membering the Feminist Body of Ecocriticism 70 SIMON C. ESTOK Copyrighted Material-Taylor & Francis viii Contents PART II Feminist/Postcolonial/Environmental Justice 5 Streams of Violence: Colonialism, Modernization, and Gender in María Cristina Mena’s “John of God, the Water-Carrier” 87 CHIYO CRAWFORD 6 Saving the Costa Rican Rainforest: Anacristina Rossi’s Mad About Gandoca 101 REGINA ROOT 7 The Poetics of Decolonization: Reading Carpentaria in a Feminist Ecocritical Frame 120 KATE RIGBY 8 Re-Imagining the Human: Ecofeminism, Aff ect, and Postcolonial Narration 137 LAURA WHITE PART III Species, Sexualities, and Eco-Activisms 9 Women and Interspecies Care: Dog Mothers in Taiwan 151 CHIA-JU CHANG AND IRIS RALPH 10 The Queer Vegetarian: Understanding Alimentary Activism 166 LAUREN RAE HALL 11 Sex, Population, and Environmental Eugenics in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood 184 RACHEL STEIN 12 Down with People: Queer Tendencies and Troubling Racial Politics in Antinatalist Discourse 203 NICOLE SEYMOUR Copyrighted Material-Taylor & Francis Contents ix PART IV Apocalyptic Visions 13 Keep Moving: Place and Gender in a Post-Apocalyptic Environment 221 CHRISTA GREWE-VOLPP 14 Queer Green Apocalypse: Tony Kushner’s Angels in America 235 KATIE HOGAN 15 In(ter)dependence Day: A Feminist Ecocritical Perspective on Fireworks 254 GRETA GAARD Contributors 277 Index 283 Copyrighted Material-Taylor & Francis This page intentionally left blank Copyrighted Material-Taylor & Francis Figures 3.1 The logic square of Western philosophy. 58 3.2 The logic square of possible ontological positions. 59 4.1 Stereogram of a helicopter. 72 9.1 Dog-hitting stick. 153 9.2 One of Taiwan’s dog mothers. 154 15.1 A representation of the fi re-works upon the river of Thames, over against Whitehall, at their majesties coronation (1685). 257 15.2 Franz Hogenberg, “Fireworks machines in the form of sea monsters on the Rhine at Dusseldorf” (1587). 259 15.3 Charles-Nicolas Cochin le fi ls, “Fireworks and illuminations for the birthday of the dauphin” (1735). 260 Copyrighted Material-Taylor & Francis This page intentionally left blank Copyrighted Material-Taylor & Francis Acknowledgments This book is about culture-nature and human-nonhuman relations as they appear in the feminist ecocritical viewfi nder, and was enriched by our lively dialogues with the contributors. We are grateful to our contributors whose essays variously manifest many aspects of this complex relationship, such as vegan sexualities, reproductive justice, toxic bodies, devalued humans (mostly women), species, and landscapes, and other related issues in femi- nist ecocriticism. We extend our gratitude to College of Arts and Sciences Dean, Brad Caskey, at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, who generously pro- vided funding for Greta Gaard’s travel and lodging at the Modern Lan- guage Association 2012 Convention, where the three co-editors were able to meet with various publishers and establish our volume’s contractual rela- tionship with Routledge. The Getty Research Institute also provided repro- ducible copies of the images used in Gaard’s chapter. Serpil Oppermann’s work benefi ted from a Fulbright Research Grant for 2011–12, where she edited and wrote as a scholar-in-residence at the University of Nevada- Reno. We also thank
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