Literature without Us
Literature without Us
Chapter Five returns to the question of cultural identity and cultural humanism as a problem for ecocriticism and ecopolitics. In addressing the scale of the planetary, this chapter shows that ecopolitics at the planetary scale is both useful and problematic in critiquing cultural essentialism and cultural humanism. Taking up Timothy Clark’s concept of the “hypothetical scale,” I suggest different modes of reading ecocritical works, and show how ethnic nationalist and cultural humanist approaches to literature in area studies can interrupt ecopolitical thinking.
Keywords: Ecocriticism Japanese literature cinema Documentary film Environmental theory ecology
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