230586 Ecocriticism and Gender: From the Transcendentalists to Richard Powers (S) (SoSe 2021)

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As one of the defining discourses of our time, climate change is a central topic negotiated in literature and culture. The debate is frequently complicated by an established binary between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ that relies on an inbuilt gender bias. What is more, climate change impacts on social hierarchies modulated by race, gender, and class as well as other categories of difference. In this seminar, we are going to explore central developments in the field of ecocritical theory from its inception to today. In our analyses, we will focus on central Transcendentalist texts (e.g. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay Nature, 1836, Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, 1844, or Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, 1854) as well as on current negotiations of ecocritical concerns in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior (2012) and Richard Powers’s The Overstory (2019). We’ll also consider documentaries and films such as Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Sequel (2017) or Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012). After the seminar, students will have acquired a thorough overview of central approaches in the field of the environmental humanities and their interconnection with different regions, and will be able to analyse and critically evaluate cultural products with a view to the ecological discourses they negotiate.

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