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Transnationalization of ecocriticism

  • Serpil Opperann

Abstract:

This essay argues that ecocriticism today has acclimatized transnational perspectives, and that transnationalization of ecocriticism explains its propensity to move beyond its insular focus on geographical and U.S.-based paradigms. In its transition from what Ursula Heise calls “ethics of proximity to a cosmopolitan ethic”, ecocriticism is constructing a vision of “ecoglobalism”. Sketching a broad overview of this development, I contend that transnationalization of ecocriticism does not necessarily induce an opposition between the local and global sense of place; rather, ecocriticism invites a rethinking of the local in the context of its global configurations.

Published Online: 2012-10-19
Published in Print: 2012-10

© 2012 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.

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