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LIT 499-03 Spring 2017

LIT 499-03 Global Environmentalisms
Professor: Lawrence McCauley
Class Meetings: M/R 11:00aam-12:20pm

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.  Common texts include Animal’s People by Indra Sindha (India), Potiki by Patricia Grace (New Zealand), My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki (U.S. and Japan), and Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World by Sabina Berman (Mexico).  Subtopics include environmental justice, ecofeminism, animal rights, transcorporeality, and slow violence.

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