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)
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: French Literature Series 39.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (165 p.)
• Notes: Articles originated with the peer-reviewed submissions selected for the 39th annual French Literature Conference.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / Editors The Environment in French and Francophone Literature and Film -- Michel Serres, Luc Ferry, and the Possibility of a Natural Contract / Jonathan Krell -- It’s a Queer Thing: Early Modern French Ecocriticism / Louisa Mackenzie -- Discours mythiques et écocritiques en dialogue: l’exemple d’Alexandrie d’Égypte / Christophe Ippolito -- “Please Don’t Feed the Natives”: Human Zoos, Colonial Desire, and Bodies on Display / Walter Putnam -- Pilgrims in a Toxic Land: Writing the Trenches of the French Great War / Claire Keith -- Café toxique: éco-colonialisme et monoculture dans La Terre du café de Patrice Nganang / Marie Chantale Mofin Noussi -- Writing the Land/scape: Marie Darrieussecq’s Le Pays / Stéphanie Posthumus -- L’Environnement dans le dessin de presse de Plantu: étude sémiotique / Liliane Toss -- Eco-Lessons: Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s HOME and the Republican Pedagogical Contract / Leon Sachs -- Sciences humaines et écologie — trouver les nouvelles passerelles et les nouveaux mots pour entreprendre un nouveau monde / Isabelle Delannoy.