The environment in French and francophone literature and film / / edited by Jeff Persels.

• Superior document: French literature series ; v. 39
• Author: French Literature Conference
• TeilnehmendeR: Persels, Jeff.; French Literature Conference (39th : 2011 : University of South Carolina)
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: French literature series ; v. 39.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (165 p.)
• Notes: Articles originated with the peer-reviewed submissions selected for the 39th annual French Literature Conference.
• Other title: Preliminary material /; Michel Serres, Luc Ferry, and the Possibility of a Natural Contract /; It’s a Queer Thing: Early Modern French Ecocriticism /; Discours mythiques et écocritiques en dialogue: l’exemple d’Alexandrie d’Égypte /; “Please Don’t Feed the Natives”: Human Zoos, Colonial Desire, and Bodies on Display /; Pilgrims in a Toxic Land: Writing the Trenches of the French Great War /; Café toxique: éco-colonialisme et monoculture dans La Terre du café de Patrice Nganang /; Writing the Land/scape: Marie Darrieussecq’s Le Pays /; L’Environnement dans le dessin de presse de Plantu: étude sémiotique /; Eco-Lessons: Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s HOME and the Republican Pedagogical Contract /; Sciences humaines et écologie — trouver les nouvelles passerelles et les nouveaux mots pour entreprendre un nouveau monde /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9401208840
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Jeff Persels.

Volume 39 of FLS French Literature Series features ten articles on the topic of the environment in French and Francophone Literature and Film. Contributors engage with the work of such authors, filmakers and cartoonists as Michel Serres, Luc Ferry, Patrice Nganang, Marie Darrieussecq, Yann-Arthus Bertrand and Plantu, and such topics as human zoos, eco-colonialism, queer theory, and the environmental catastrophes of WWI and, globally, of human civilization as recorded in the recent eco-documentary, HOME . Wide-ranging, provocative and topical these articles both broaden and deepen the efficacy of ecocriticism as a tool for enriching our understanding of the field beyond the English and American “nature writing” at the theory’s core.