Dislocations and Ecologies: An Introduction

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Notes

The other volumes in the series are Catching Fire (2009) and Mockingjay (2010).

See Emerson's ‘Self-Reliance’ (1841, in Emerson, 1987: 30).

For the following overview of the two ‘waves’ of ecocriticism, we are indebted to Lawrence Buell (2005). Since it is impossible to do justice to the wealth of ecocritical work done in the last few years, we would also like to direct the reader to the retrospective reviews of the movement, and predictions for future developments, offered in Terry Gifford (2008), and in Buell (2011).

In 2001, Adamson published her influential American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism: The Middle Place. Adamson is also the editor, together with Mei Mei Evans and Rachel Stein, of The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy (2002), which was conceived as a deliberate response to the ‘first-wave’ Ecocriticism Reader (1996), edited by Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm. Recent years have produced a number of ecocritical studies that focus on specific ethnic communities, among them Lee Schweninger's Listening to the Land (2008) and Kimberly Ruffin's Black on Earth (2010).

See also Elizabeth DeLoughrey and George B. Handley (2011).

See also the Spring 2010 special issue of Ecozona, the official journal of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE), on Greening Across Borders, edited by Christa Grewe-Volpp.

The history of Walden's black community was recovered by Elise Lemire (2010).