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Colloque International En Ecopoétique International Ecopoetics Conference COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL EN ECOPOÉTIQUE INTERNATIONAL ECOPOETICS CONFERENCE « Lieux d’enchantement: Ecrire et réenchanter le monde. » “Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth” Photo © Margot Lauwers Université de Perpignan - France - Du 22 au 25 juin 2016 Coordinatrice du colloque : Bénédicte Meillon [email protected] Comité d’organisation Comité Scientifique Jocelyn Dupont Joni Adamson Caroline Durand-Rous Jocelyn Dupont Hélène Guillaume François Gavillon Margot Lauwers Yves-Charles Grandjeat Eliane Liddell Wendy Harding Bénédicte Meillon Eliane Liddell Jonathan Pollock Margot Lauwers Bénédicte Meillon Jonathan Pollock Scott Slovic Responsable Administrative du CRESEM : Stéphanie Fernandez “Dwellings of Enchantment: Papers will be welcome that will address some of the following issues: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth” • Are certain genres–the lyric essay, the short story, the novel, drama, film or poetry–better suited to the writing of nature? • What place might dystopic fiction occupy in ecocritical studies? • Can these writers be said to contribute to a literature of hope? With its roots in nineteenth century American transcendentalism, nature writing, environmental literature, or literature of place in North America has in the past • Might the reenchantment of the quotidian and the natural be particularly inclined toward magical realism as fifty years sprouted into a minor genre of contemporary literature. As the world is a liminal mode dealing with, in Wendy Faris’s terms, “ordinary enchantments?” becoming increasingly aware of the urgency of our global environmental crisis, can nature writers and ecocritics contribute to advocate a change in the language • What are the roles of myth and/or science when fiction and non-fiction draw from these other forms of and politics that we humans rely upon to relate to the world, and ultimately, to discourse about the world? determine its fate? As early as 1949, Aldo Leopold insisted that “the evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as an emotional process” (263). Leopold • What is the contribution of phenomenology and ecopsychology to the field of ecopoetics? pledged for an ethic of love and respect for the land, and for the “cultural harvest [that it yields]” (xix). Recalling the basic concept of ecology, Leopold argued: • What impact has ecopoetics had on politics? “We abuse the land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see the land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with • Do ecopoetic texts reveal, as Linda Hogan claims, something which “dwells beneath the surface of things”? love and respect.” (xix) • Can it be said that all nature writers are mystics? What kind of “mystical experiences,” “numinous encounters,” Promoting perception of man’s “embeddedness in the world,” to take up Scott “inexplicable revelations” do nature writers tell about (Mark Tredinnick)? Slovic’s phrase, ecocritics and nature writers have increasingly joined efforts to spread a biocentric view of the world, and to help humans discover or regain more • What is the place of oneirism in the writing of nature? humble and more responsible notions of place. Various yet related fields of studies have emerged from academic interest in literary environmentalism, generally • What is the importance of liminal experiences of nature? What can we learn from moments in literature grouped under the labels of “ecofeminism,” “nature writing,” “environmental when human apprehension suddenly opens to forms of “terrestrial intelligence” (Linda Hogan), or sentience, literature” and “literature of place,” or, going back to a much older tradition, pertaining to animal, mineral, vegetal, or elemental realms? “Native American literature.” What all the writers approached from either of these angles have in common is that their texts call for an empathetic, imaginative, • What are the different ways in which one’s sensitivity to the other-than-human world shapes one’s writing, perceptive and reciprocal relationship with nature. Whether grounded primarily and eventually articulates with nature? in ecological science, in personal meditation, or in ancient mythology, tradition, and philosophy, these writers of various origins nevertheless come together in • Is there such a thing as “the land’s wild music” (Mark Tredinnick)? How may we learn to listen for it? What the development of what Barry Lopez and Mark Tredinnick call “a literature of kind of musicality arises then, within the very writing of/with nature? humility, of movement beyond the self.” • How might “thinking like a mountain” (Aldo Leopold) or hearing like a bat (Linda Hogan) ripple into and This ecopoetics conference aims to cast light on the rhizomatic convergences through the writing of nature? between literatures that tend to be bunched into the separate categories of ecofeminist, postcolonial or environmental studies. The purpose is to show how the fiction and non-fiction of these writers with a specific interest in place as well as in the non-human realm overlap, intersect, and engage in a fruitful, multicultural dialogue, opening imaginative and insightful perspectives onto the world. For, does not much nature writing present us with an ecological picture of organic interrelatedness similar to the motif of the sacred hoop expressing the interconnected web of all life forms in Native American tradition (Paula Gunn Allen)? And does not most nature writing consist in a movement to reenchant the world, or in other words/worlds, to re-sing the world? « Lieux d’enchantement: Nous invitons les participants à creuser les questions suivantes : Ecrire et réenchanter le monde. » • Certains genres (l’essai lyrique, la nouvelle, le roman, le théâtre, le cinéma ou la poésie) se prêtent-ils mieux que d’autres à l’écriture de la nature ? • Quelle place occupe la fiction dystopique dans les études éco-critiques ? • Peut-on dire que ces auteurs contribuent à une littérature de l’espoir ? Prenant sa source dans le transcendantalisme du dix-neuvième siècle, l’écriture de la nature en Amérique du Nord connaît un nouvel essor depuis un demi-siècle. • Le ré-enchantement de la nature serait-il particulièrement enclin à s’écrire sur le mode du réalisme magique, A mesure que s’accentue l’urgence face à la crise environnementale, la littérature mode liminal par essence qui, selon Wendy Faris, dévoile des « enchantements ordinaires » ? et la critique littéraire peuvent-elles contribuer à infléchir le langage et les politiques par lesquelles nous scellons l’avenir du monde ? Déjà, en 1949, Aldo • Quels rôles jouent le mythe ou la science lorsque la littérature puise dans ces autres formes de discours sur Leopold soulignait les processus intellectuels et émotionnels qui entrent en jeu le monde ? dans la construction d’une éthique de la Terre, rappelant les principes fondateurs de l’écologie : « Nous maltraitons la Terre parce que nous la considérons comme • Quelle est la contribution de la phénoménologie et de l’écopsychologie dans le domaine écopoétique? un bien qui nous appartient. Lorsque nous percevrons la Terre comme une communauté à laquelle nous appartenons, alors pourrons-nous commencer à • Quel est l’impact de l’écopoét(h)ique sur la politique ? l’utiliser avec amour et respect. » (xix) • Les écrits écopoétiques révèlent-ils, comme le soutient Linda Hogan, quelque chose qui demeure sous la Les spécialistes d’écocritique et les écrivains défendent une vision de l’homme surface des choses ? connecté aux divers réseaux de vie sur Terre ; s’évertuant à répandre une perspective biocentrique sur le monde, ils nous incitent à redécouvrir une conception de l’espace • Peut-on dire, avec Mark Tredinnick, que les écrivains de la nature sont des mystiques ? Quelles sont ces et de la terre plus humble et responsable. Les écrivains de la nature sont souvent « expériences mystiques », « rencontres numineuses », « révélations inexplicables » que content leurs récits ? abordés avec diverses approches critiques, appelées tantôt « éco-féminisme », tantôt « écriture de la nature », « littérature environnementale », ou, remontant à • Quelle place tient l’onirisme dans l’écriture de la nature? une tradition bien plus ancienne, « écriture des Premières Nations ». Or, quel que soit le prisme par lequel on les aborde, tous ces auteurs appellent à une relation • Quelle est la part donnée aux expériences liminales de la nature ? Qu’apprend-on de ces moments où la avec le monde basée sur l’empathie, la perception, l’imagination et la réciprocité. perception de l’homme s’ouvre à des formes d’intelligence terrestre (Linda Hogan), des façons d’être au Qu’ils s’inspirent des sciences écologiques, de méditations personnelles, ou monde qui relèvent de l’animal, du végétal, du minéral ou des éléments ? encore de mythologies, de traditions et de philosophies ancestrales, ces écrivains d’origines multiples se rejoignent en ce qu’ils participent à élaborer ce que Barry • Comment la sensibilité au non-humain peut-elle donner forme à l’écriture ? Lopez et Mark Tredinnick nomment une « littérature de l’humilité, un mouvement au-delà de soi. » • Existe-t-il une « musique sauvage de la terre » (Tredinnick), et, le cas échéant, comment apprendre à l’écouter ? Comment cette musique se traduit-elle dans le langage littéraire ? Ce colloque en écopoétique vise à porter un regard transversal sur ces différents auteurs, tous écrivains de la nature. L’objectif sera de dégager une problématique • Comment le fait de « penser comme une montagne » (Aldo
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