Reframing souths: Ecocritical Perspectives on South in Literature, Film, and New Media
Synopsis
The volume offers a multidisciplinary inquiry into the manifold representations of the South(s), approached through an ecocritical and decolonial lens. Edited by Carmen Concilio and Alberto Baracco, the volume gathers contributions from scholars across literature, philosophy, media and visual studies to interrogate the South(s) not simply as a geographic entity, but as a dynamic cultural and epistemological construct. Divided into two sections—respectively devoted to “Literary, Ecocritical, Decolonial, and Comparative Readings” and “Images, Representations, and Visual Cultures”—the volume explores how Souths are imagined, narrated, and visualized across temporal, spatial, and media boundaries. Essays address oceanic and blue humanities, multispecies entanglements, ecological ethics, postcolonial narratives, environmental activism, and visual ecocriticism. Through its wide-ranging and timely perspectives, the volume offers a nuanced exploration of ecocritical concerns, capturing the shifting, dynamic quality of Souths and their role today in postcolonial literature, audiovisual production, and the humanities.
Chapters
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 - South to North Multispecies Co-Migrations in the Wake of Rachel Carson and Donna Haraway
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Chapter 2 - Unidirectional Rivers and Reversible Seas. Global South and Water Metaphors in Kamau Brathwaite, Derek Walcott, and Zadie Smith
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Chapter 3 - Non-Human, Non-Living, and Gender: Developments of African Magic Realism in Khadija Abdalla Bajaber and Sharon Dodua Otoo
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Chapter 4 - Arboreal Imagery of the South in German Literature: On the Example of J.W. von Goethe
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Chaper 5 - Thirty-One Stories for Thirty-One Different Animal and Plant Species. Voyages en sol incertain by Matthieu Duperrex
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Chapter 6 - Humanizing the English Language: Sustaining the Global South through Teaching
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Chapter 7 - Learning from the Paradigmatic South: Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain as a Parable of Environmental Resistance
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Chapter 8 - The Gaze of the Social Scientist: Scotland as South in Smollett’s Humphry Clinker
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Chapter 9 - Framing the Other in J.M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K
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Chapter 10 - Coetzee and Wittgenstein on Play the Law
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Chapter 11 - “Fossilized Presents”. The Photo-Textual Nostos in Sicily from Elio Vittorini to Giorgio Vasta
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Chapter 12 - Photography, Image Agency, and Visual Ecocriticism. Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Lucania
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Chapter 13 - Troubling Progress: In viaggio con Cecilia’s Journeys of Return
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Chapter 14 - The Inversion of Europa: Reconfiguring the Utopia through the Gaze of the Femminiello in Mater Natura (Andrei, 2005)
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Chapter 15 - Distopie all’italiana: Dystopian Depiction of the Souths of Italy through the Screens (Anna by N. Ammaniti and Mondocane by A. Celli, 2021)
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Chapter 16 - Techno-Aesthetic Sustainability in the Audiovisual Praxis
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Chapter 17 - Framing Beekeeping, Environmental Change, and Adaptation in the Italian Alps. An Anthropological Perspective
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Chapter 18 - Transmedia Environmental Poetry in the Pacific: Between Literature and the New Media
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Chapter 19 - Green Generation and the Global South: TikTokers, Creators, and Climate Change
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Chapter 20 - Mediterranean Calling: Hunger, Revolt, and Migration in French-Language Graphic Novels
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