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Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination
Nicole Seymour
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Description for Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination
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In Strange Natures, Nicole Seymour investigates the ways in which contemporary queer fictions offer insight on environmental issues through their performance of a specifically queer understanding of nature, the nonhuman, and environmental degradation. By drawing upon queer theory and ecocriticism, Seymour examines how contemporary queer fictions extend their critique of "natural" categories of gender and sexuality to the nonhuman natural world, thus constructing a queer environmentalism. Seymour's thoughtful analyses of works such as Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues, Todd Haynes's Safe, and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain illustrate how homophobia, classism, racism, sexism, and xenophobia inform dominant views of the environment ... Read more
In Strange Natures, Nicole Seymour investigates the ways in which contemporary queer fictions offer insight on environmental issues through their performance of a specifically queer understanding of nature, the nonhuman, and environmental degradation. By drawing upon queer theory and ecocriticism, Seymour examines how contemporary queer fictions extend their critique of "natural" categories of gender and sexuality to the nonhuman natural world, thus constructing a queer environmentalism. Seymour's thoughtful analyses of works such as Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues, Todd Haynes's Safe, and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain illustrate how homophobia, classism, racism, sexism, and xenophobia inform dominant views of the environment ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252079160
SKU
V9780252079160
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About Nicole Seymour
Nicole Seymour is an assistant professor of English at California State University, Fullerton.
Reviews for Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination
ASLE Ecocriticism Book Award, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, 2015. "This lively study engages with and extends important emerging themes in queer theory and ecocriticism. Engagingly written and intricately argued, Strange Natures demonstrates an exemplary practice of queer ecological reading."
Catriona Sandilands, professor, faculty of environmental studies, York University, Toronto "Seymour specifically sets the queer ecology
which ... Read more
Catriona Sandilands, professor, faculty of environmental studies, York University, Toronto "Seymour specifically sets the queer ecology
which ... Read more