LIT 499-02
Professor: Lawrence McCauley
Monday 5:30-8:20pm
Global Environmentalisms:
This is first and foremost a course in ecocriticism, which means that its theoretical orientation is towards how relationships between humans and the earth are constructed, imagined, codified, and perhaps subverted in literature. Further, this particular course takes a global perspective to explore how, in various lands, differing environmental attitudes relate to both cultural history and geographical realities. As a LIT 499, the course builds toward the culminating project which is to write a theoretically and critically informed ecocritical analysis of a selected text or texts. Readings include Animal’s People by Indra Sinha, Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World by Sabina Berman, The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda, and My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki.